‘There are places where the mindset flourished.’ ‘I felt like the best of my contemporary young, the desire to live my life, a strong, powerful life, to unlock my personality, a powerful personality. (...) I lacked an environment, an environment created by my predecessors, a suitable environment for myself, an environment that I would have prepared for my successors.... This triple middle, this three-pronged middle, I obscure his lack, I worked in...