Stephen Fry

And in a sort of unknowing way, avant la lettre, as the French would say, part of the letter is a very good example of how you can purify

Reinvent yourself.

I mean, the irony is, of course, he didn't because the love story, the terrible love story with Bosie is bigger than anything else.

And that's what makes it true.

Of course, it's it makes it feel almost authored that having come to all these amazing resolutions and understandings as he does in the letter.

The moment he meets the rose red lips and the blue eyes of Bosie, he's off to Naples and Capri and then Paris into a pretty life, even worse than the one before.

And that's another thing.

I'm just going to finish this.

But every addict will tell you that if you I mean, let's just take it with cigarettes.

If you if you if you give up smoking when you're smoking 20 a day and it's taken you maybe 10 years to go from four or five a day to 20 a day.

and you give up for 20 years, when you fall off the wagon and start again, you don't start like you did when you... You start at the 20.

And he started with the squalor and the terror as soon as he was out of jail, almost.

I do remind myself of passages and I do quote the ones that I like a lot to myself or to others, having been in prison myself.

which I was for a while, not as long and not as harsh.

I also, you know, I find it very, very personal.

I mean, when I read it, I can actually picture him at that desk with that pen in the pain that he was in.

He'd had a miserable time the first...

Year or so, especially.

And even at Reading, the first governor, Michael Colonel Isaacson, was not at all sympathetic.

But fortunately, Major Nelson came to replace him, who was a much more progressive and sympathetic person who allowed him the writing and so on.