Stephen Fry om lykkens hjul, myter og breve fra og til fortiden

Stephen Fry Visits Josh (Youtube). En absolut fornøjelse. Højdepunktet er nok 15/16-årige Stephen Frys brev til sin 25-årige version - med svar fra den 50-årige version.

Brevet er på ni linjer og kan sikkert godt gengives her. Det kan findes i Moab is My Washpot.

To Myself: Not To Be Read Until I Am Twenty-Five
I know what you will think when you read this. You will be embarrassed. You will scoff and sneer. Well I tell you now that everything I feel now, everything I am now is truer and better than anything I shall ever be. Ever. This is me now, the real me. Every day that I grow away from the me that is writing this now is a betrayal and a defeat. I expect you will screw this up into a ball with sophisticated disgust, or at best with tolerant amusement but deep down you will know, you will know that you are smothering what you really, really were. This is the age when I truly am.
From now on my life will be behind me. I tell you now, THIS IS TRUE – truer than anything else I will ever write, feel or know. WHAT I AM NOW IS ME, WHAT I WILL BE IS A LIE.

STEPHEN FRY Visits Josh

Few Britons are as iconic as Stephen Fry.

STEPHEN FRY Visits Josh

Stephen Fry's letter to his 16-year-old self

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