The War and Jim's Lifelong Friendship

I think Jim's a bit disingenuous sometimes about his parents because I think he sort of tries in various bits of his writing sort of paint them as terribly unsupportive and kind of terribly old-fashioned. But they were remarkably open-minded you know at 15 he had a sort of breakdown at his conventional boys public school and he was taken home to go to art school. He actually wrote and spoke very little about the war but has one line which says where he says if you want to understand what it was like you just read secrets as soon as men was. And after the war there was the tape flood in in 1928 when the Thames broke its banks and filled the tape basement with up