It could be worse

[ritaxis]

Here's what the Chronicle printed. There are errors, of course: he did not grow up as one of five, but as one of two, and actually spent the latter half of his adolescence on his own, as his mother had died and his father was off in England preparing to have the second clutch. Paul's in the second clutch, not the first clutch, as long as we're going for factual accuracy. And "soon disillusioned" does not describe my father's relationship with the Party, which lasted about ten years, and ended amicably. Yes, he was disillusioned, but not in the way people usually mean that word: he was inspired by his experiences with the Party to seek more communist ways of doing and being: and that is what anarchism was to him. "Primitive communism," more or less. He kept his Marxism and went forward, not back, from it (I say this as disagreed with him on various topics). Usually "soon disillusioned" is used to describe a person who pulls back from the Left and becomes a Derchowitz or something.

And Rosemary is in there, though she's not where she belongs.

And the son-in-law? That's the nice fellow. I imagine some people are going to wish that the quotes included certain other people, but that's the way it goes.