There was no school for former activists or revolutionaries where they told you how to get on with the rest of your life, and taught you how to become middle class again, he thought. As the years passed and he heard about some of his friends from those days who had come on hard times, he was sure he knew what had happened—it had been a very difficult experience to come down from. He had been among the first, he realized, who had to return to so ordinary a life, the first to learn how hard it was to be middle class.
