A Word or Two of Explanation....

'To you and your kind your youth and upbringing take on this great mystique, the quality of myth. The first twenty years of my life are an open book, school and home, home and school, some friends here, some friends there. To you they are the backdrop to a gigantic world of fantasy to which you have endlessly to return'

[Stephen Fry, The Liar (Mandarin, 1991)]

The above quote is from a letter sent to Adrian Healey,
the hero of the book, from his girlfriend Jenny, and as she rightly continues....

'..."Dearest creature, you do not understand"... I hear you say, as generations of men have always whined to their women. But that is the point! I do not understand....Because there is nothing to understand. That is why you have to understand. You went to this school and that one, you made these friends and those. It was nothing. The future is much bigger deal than the past, Adrian, a much bigger deal.'