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Biography

At the end of his life, UTP wrote an essay intended as his intellectual autobiography. He describes the influence of his father and of his mother, the role that religion and mysticism played in his years as a schoolboy, the philosophical climate of

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Losing a language

I know that my English is not perfect even though my maternal language is English (which is, by the way, not the mother tongue of my Dutch mother), and I used to speak English with an Oxford accent (they say). I lost my English when I went to school