Invoked by Grant as an analogy: being a middle-aged student in a class of 20-year-olds is like a religious person having a conversation with Richard Dawkins.
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- Your father's age in the classroom
Grant feels it's unfair to be at university at his age, reading Dracula and Absalom, Absalom! with 20-year-olds. Teachers like having him there, which makes it worse, so he sits at the back…