I think that I got this due to seeing it quoted in a book about Guy Burgess, but I honestly don’t remember — Tom Driberg overlapped with so many people I’m interested in (Harold Nicolson and Chips Channon among them) that there are a variety of ways I could have stumbled across this. The forward informs us that this was not completed before Driberg died, although it does cover a lot of his life. I do think it shows at points throughout that this was […]
“When I have taken a sleeping pill (Mogadon) and woken at 3.30 or 5.30 a.m., peed, taken two paracetamols to boost the pill, and slept for two or three hours more, the dreams on which I then wake are a complex jumble of phenomena, often brightly coloured and, briefly, memorable. The person most often present in them is my mother.”
Ruling Passions by Tom Driberg