I Have Come a Long Way

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John W. de Gruchy. I Have Come a Long Way

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I HAVE COME A LONG WAY

JOHN W. DE GRUCHY

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There is a mixture of ways in which I tell my story. There are the anecdotes of age that have come to mind as I have remembered the past. I have not found the need to search for illustrations; I have more than enough stories of my own residing in what Dante called my “cargo of experience”.4 Then there are what I think of as snapshots: events that I have tried to capture as though I was still operating the Brownie camera I got as a teenager, pointing at and shooting things that were interesting and important in passing.

Insofar as an autobiography – perhaps especially one of an academic – recounts the history of ideas as they have evolved in the mind, I cannot but share reflections along the way about concerns and issues that have shaped my journey. In order to give each chapter some coherence and direction, I have highlighted these in the title and in a quotation that leads into the text. But the chapters proceed chronologically, giving an account of the passing years and using dates as signposts.

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