An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This not an autobiography. I would never write a history of myself. On the other hand, throughtout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten. None of these things is important, but each of them made such a tremendous impression on me that I have never been able to get them out of my mind. Each of them, even after a lapse of fifty and sometimes sixty years, has remained seared on my memory. I didn't have to search for any of them. All I had to do was skim them off the top off my consciousness and write them down.