First Love
“I was 19 when I first beggared myself for a car; I have stayed that way ever since. At the beginning of my second term at Oxford I exchanged a fast, reliable, economical motor-cycle for a slow temperamental, wasteful and stupifying noisy ex-racing car—a 1930 MG special, six months younger than I. But it was love at first sight and I never regretted it. We were ‘married’ for seven and a half years, at the end of which time most of the engine had disappeared in flames at the end of the exhaust-pipe and my young (human) wife was too pregnant to push-start it any more. So it had to go, though I was broken-hearted.” —The writer and critic A. Alvarez in a 8.8. C. broadcast about cars.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30448, 23 May 1964, Page 5
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130First Love Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30448, 23 May 1964, Page 5
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