“This was still the era — it would later end in that famous decade — when to be young was a social encumbrance, a mark of irrelevance, a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.”
— Ian McEwan on repressed British life prior to the sexual revolution, On Chesil Beach
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