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Isherwood did have the grace to concede that he was not, perhaps, the ideal reader of a "study of post-war sexual relations" between men and women. "How can I criticize a book like yours when I am an atheistical homosexualist with an obsession about Death?" he concluded.

Although Isherwood did not really imagine that Auden would be in any genuine danger in Spain, it was "a solemn parting, despite all their jokes. It made them aware how absolutely each relied on the other's continuing to exist.".