There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.
Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.