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A Postillion Struck By Lightning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is Dirk's first volume of autobiography. It was originally published in 1977 and traces the first steps of a young actor who went on to achieve worldwide acclaim. It details not only his early stage experiences, but also some evocative scenes from his childhood in Sussex, where his family lived in a cottage in the South Downs. Later came a technical college in Glasgow, an apprenticeship in printing, an art education in Chelsea and finally a scholarship to the Old Vic - just as war broke out. This is my favourite volume simply because it gives a fantastic picture of what his life was like growing up. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(Dirk's sister is talking) "Like when HE" nodding her closed eyes towards me "stuck a knife in my back last Easter." Angelica looked at me with her mouth open, and her eyebrows went up into her fringe. "You didn't." "He jolly well did. Ask him." "You didn't?" "Yes, he did. You tell her or I'll show her the place." "Yes I did" I said "I did and I'm glad. It taught her a lesson." "Humph" said my sister and opened her eyes. "But why did you?" said Angelica. "Because I was reading his silly old 'Larks' before he did." "And it was brand new and no one had looked at it before" I said. "But that wasn't a terrible thing to do." "It was to him" said my sister. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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