Handsomely equipped to fail, I went out into the world. I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn't found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to love. The truth was I was not a cynic by nature, only by revolt. One day I was outrageously bitter among some friends about the Army back in my own rooms later it suddenly struck me that just because I said with impunity things that would have apoplexed my dead father, I was still no less under his influence. It showed me, very intermittently, that it is not enough to revolt against one's past. But I did absorb a small dose of one permanently useful thing, Oxford's greatest gift to civilized life: Socratic honesty. John Robert Fowles (/ f a l z / 31 March 1926 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope- an impotence, in short and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all. But nothing could have been less poetic that my seeing-through-all boredom with life in general and with making a living in particular. I got a third-class degree and a first-class illusion: that I was a poet. It starred Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen and Anna Karina. The screenplay was written by John Fowles, based on his 1965 novel of the same name. “I acquired expensive habits and affected manners. The Magus is a 1968 British mystery film directed by Guy Green.
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