It was generous—far more than a single man in his mid-twenties needed—which delighted me, because I had in mind some years of unfettered bachelorhood in which to function as a downtable sub-editor and writer, while getting in a lot of golf and night life.

For a long time, libertarian was interchangeable in France with anarchist but in recent years, its meaning has become more ambivalent. Some anarchists like David Guérin will call themselves 'libertarian socialists', partly to avoid the negative overtones still associated with anarchism, and partly to stress the place of anarchism with the socialist tradition. Even Marxists of the New Left like E. P. Thompson call themselves 'libertarian' to distinguish themselves from those authoritarian socialists and communists who believe in revolutionary dictatorship and vanguard parties.

Fucked if I know, I never even clapped my little porkies on him before.

There's no sense in trying to mop up a free-flowing river.