How dreams turn sour

All those years ago, in the early 1970s, when Gordon and I were students at the University of Edinburgh and when Gordon was a bit of a socialist revolutionary, I'll bet that neither of us thought that it would ever come to this: that he would be openly offering aid and succour to someone who is nothing less and nothing more than a military dictator.

"For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul?"