When I was very young, the worst thing I could do to myself was to anticipatean ordeal. ..... I would vow to myself so to construct my life as a man as to avoid such ordeals, yet here I was, on this mild autumn night, walking up Baker Street either to face the last of my ordeals or the first or a long sequence of them, almost but not quite submitting to that paralysis of the will that emptied my mind of everything but the task before me.
――九州大学 前期日程(2月25日実施)――98年