Summary
[Simon] was a champion grumbler, no silver linings to his clouds. The ugliness and bad manners of contemporary England depressed him, though he made sport of his anger and disapproval. In one of these diaries he remarked that his mother had been a great slapper and cuffer of her sons, and would these days have been carted off to prison, 'but then, ' he added, 'we live in exceptionally stupid times'.
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Simon Gray 1936-2008
Ten, eleven weeks ago I had an email from Simon Gray to say that the tumour on his lung hadn't grown; so he was all right till his next scan in four months time. Now he is dead and I wonder if they didn't tell him the truth t...
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