Mr. Isherwood: "So there you are. Probably you are amused, possibly you are irritated, you think I'm not serious. I hardly know what to add by way of expression. There are plenty of people, who would admire the noble ruins of Antiquity, the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome. I, it seems, belong to a tiny, perverse minority, who prefer ignoble ruins of the day before yesterday."