Lindsay Watson studied Modern and Medieval Languages at King’s College, Cambridge from 1972–75. She is now a psychoanalyst in London.
‘The effeteness of a small number of King's students was fascinating to me at first, then repellent, and before long completely uninteresting. They dressed in peculiar clothes, talked in silly voices and appeared to me to be living caricatures of the human race. At times I longed for some familiar ordinariness and found it with boys from other colleges who introduced me to football and pool and pubs.’
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