
I've been reading a history book about the late nineteen-fifties in UK (when I was still in Junior School). There seemed to be some dichotomy in literature between the working-class down-to-earth movement and that of modernity/intellectualism. Kingsley Amis v. TS Eliot. I am working-class, born from a combination of families in the London East End docking area and the South Wales mining community. I love Pan Books of Horror Stories and Marcel Proust. Where do I lie along this spectrum? I hope I create my own spectrum.