Whatever portion of their time and energy was being eaten up by social commitments which may have been huge, but about which I was ignorant they seemed earnestly and unproblematically engaged with the academic experience.
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Those things are at their mildest in Matt Lane, the librarian and archivist of the title: benign high-priest of literary hush, untouched by history (too late for the first world war and a non-combatant in the second), unproblematically Christian.