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Working thus and living in a very varied society at Oxford, I maintained the dual life—emotional and intellectual—esoteric and external—which had been habitual.It was a period of great activity. At Balliol I devoted my time mainly to writing essays and making the necessary studies for them. But I worked even harder at Clifton. All the morning was given up to the books I had to prepare for examination. In the afternoon I walked or rode alone, consuming my heart with vain longing, and writing the lyrics which are called ‘Dead Love’. I usually read again from 5 p.m. till 6.30 p.m.; dined almost always in company, at my father’s house or abroad with friends; sat up talking till a late hour with my father in his library, and then snatched a short unrefreshing sleep. I dreamed very vividly, and suffered from seminal losses.
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Regis, A.K. (2016). Chapter 7: An Important Episode in My Oxford Life. Alfred Brooke. In: Regis, A. (eds) The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds. Genders and Sexualities in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-29124-0_9
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