Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men frightened by their wives or sweeties would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.