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WALKING THROUGH THE VALLEY: Autobiography by George Woodcock, SC
 

WALKING THROUGH THE VALLEY: Autobiography by George Woodcock, SC

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ECW Press 1994, 1st ed. ISBN: 1550222090. 8vo (9" tall). VG+ condition - softcover. Clean, tight condition, only light wear overall. Ex-library with sturdy laminated cover & usual type markings. Internal pages unmarked, slight soiling to outer edges.

From the third volume of George Woodcock's autobiography:
Like many people who grew old and have not cast off from the past, I feel the urgency that makes me want to write even of the recent past before it is too late, and also, to see at times my life in panoramic recession. For I realize now, looking back over my eight completed decades, that from the days I left school in 1929 up to 1977, I was involved in institutions, or something very like institutions, and depended on them largely for my living. I began with the eleven years working for the Great Western Railway. When I left that in 1949, I involved myself for almost a decade in the anarchist movement, which, though apparently lightly structured and voluntary in its operations, in fact had the orthodoxies and the moral pressures that made it into an institution of its own kind. Like Orwell, I found that a writer cannot further his political ideals by immersing himself in an organized movement, but only as guerilla fighting in his own terrain.

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