The thing is, we all say different things to different people. But one thing that seems to stand out about Larkin is just how scathing - albeit, yes, comically scathing - he could be about almost everyone he knew. Some of his comments about Kingsley Amis from about 1955 are a bit pathetic, really. Jealously, I suppose, L knowing full well that he'd helped to make Lucky Jim the book it is and hadn't been given much credit.
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