>>17221734>What Is His Legacy?He was the epitome of a useful midwit. His autobiography reveals a longing to be accepted as one of the lounging, cynical, cigar-smoking, Clever-Young-Thing intelligentsia. He talks about his gay friends, his opposition to various fascist regimes, and his "partyboy" lifestyle. He is a curiously tragic figure, because I sense that at his core he was really just a good, simple Englishman with a sense of common decency who was trying to identify himself with what he thought was trendy and exiting. He ended up becoming corrupt and unmanly, but not corrupt or unmanly enough to truly become part of the power structure that he pandered to. He could've chosen the simple goodness of a Dickens or a Chesterton, but instead chose the salaciousness of a Wilde or a D.H. Lawrence.
