But Harry’s father wasn’t in the least helpful. “He says he’s not a psycho-analyst or a psychiatrist or a psycho-anything, thank God,” Thomas told me, when he got back in the evening. “And he couldn’t think why we wanted to make father write again, because he once had a look at Jacob Wrestling and didn’t understand a word of it. Harry was quite embarrassed.” “Does Harry understand it, then?” “Yes, of course he does — it’s the first I’ve heard about its being hard to understand. Anyway, what’s double-Dutch to one generation’s just ‘The cat sat on the mat’ to the next.”
