‘For both parties.’”So, the ’60s dream of complete sexual liberation ends up as a life sentence in a prison of absolute solipsism. The piece was by Jack Guinness, whose father was then her vicar: “The Archbishop of Canterbury was my ‘au pair’. She was one of the first people I met, visiting me in hospital on my second day on the planet. DR SCOTT ALEXANDER is a San Francisco Bay Area psychologist, who writes exhaustively researched blog posts at exhausting length. The adept stares at a candle flame until it produces an after-image on the retina; this, then, becomes the object of meditation.
