What did you say?
Kenneth Rexroth

How many stopped writing at thirty?
How many died of prefrontal
Lobotomies in the Communist Party?
How many are lost in the back wards
Of provincial madhouses?
How many on the advice of
Their psychoanalysts, decided
A business career was best after all?

- Kenneth Rexroth

 

This is an excerpt from an interview with the Australia-born British communist man of letters, Jack Lindsay (1900-1990), recorded by Hazel de Berg (1913-1984). Digital master available National Library of Australia: 1992119. Cite: Lindsay, Jack. & De Berg, Hazel.  (1970).  “Jack Lindsay interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection.” Accessed via Brave New Classics.