He was one of those people afflicted with the scarce, but not unheard of afflication of being born upper-class within an entirely working class family environment. Speaking softly the Queen's English, appearing at breakfest in a mustard silk waistcoat and matching paisley cravat, hair inexplicably brylcreamed, in a house seemingly void of brylcream, waistcoats, cravats. He was five years old.

Rollo Kim