![]() ![]() Somerset Maugham was mentioned in another William Trevor schoolboy school story (‘Traditions’) that I read and reviewed yesterday: Īnd I happen to be concurrently reviewing the Selected Stories of W. Like all human life, much hangs on chance or mistake or mischief or wild imagination.īetter than burnt toast, Cakes and Ale are just a happy rare break from the rest of that insidious miasma of our lives from schooldays onward, I guess. Which of the dual relationships of the triangulation was the most illicit? None, probably. It all sort of coagulated in my mind like illicitly toasted toast with adulterated raspberry jam. ![]() A triangulation of boys leading to a set of accretive circumstances, the telling of stories about each other to the headmaster and another teacher called Pinshow. An insidious story of boy’s telling stories to each other at night, one about the supposed ‘murder’ of his mother by his father so that he, his father, could marry his mother’s sister. He did have “the presence of worms in his body”, though, I note. If one has asthma as a schoolboy, one should not smoke surreptitiously in the lavatories, I would say. ![]()
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