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The cocoon that I found was the Academy

   You see, what I took away with me from Cologne was a fear of over-exposure. I needed a cocoon around me and the cocoon I found was academia. I have never had any other experience apart from academies. My wife was quite different; she travelled everywhere with the children, throughout the whole of America and then on to Italy, to France, to Luxembourg, everywhere. I just got stuck.

   This arose from the uncertainties that I experienced as a child between between 1933 and 1938 or ’39, especially after ’38. That is, apart from the time when the Olympics took place in Berlin, in 1936 I believe, when suddenly the pressures became less, but otherwise...There is a beautiful book by Henry James, ‘The Turn of the Screw.’
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