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Natural follow up after the book on Auden and Isherwood. Fascinating to read Forster and Isherwood's friendship through their letters, their bond deepen as they start addressing each other by their first names, become more lovingly warm and personal, as they process the backdrop of history while updating each other on their everyday lives. Namedrops abound too! I need to read their works now, knowing the context.

"It is a rung of misery, in which each rung is tempted to keep to itself, ignore the rung below it, criticize the rung above."

"My life is water-colour rendering of yours: a burst water-pipe instead of a frozen radiator, cough and cold instead of clap, failure to start an article on "How I listen to Music" instead of a novel, and a £50 loan to poor Mrs Morgan at the garage instead of an American debt."