{Literary Circles [continued (4)]}[29th November 1988]

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			NB** ¡
	Birth date	Interval (Conversion age)	Formal Conversion Date	Interval	Death date	(Age)
T. S. Eliot	28/09/1888	39	1927	38	04/01/1965	(c77)
[Difference→]		(12)				(14)
Evelyn Waugh	{28/10/)1903	27	1930	33	{10/04/}1966	(63)
Graham Greene	{2/10/}1904	22	1926	65	{03/04/1991}	(84+) nyk {86}
	↑ {(Ouch!)}*

These are, I suppose, the three best known literary converts in England this century. Waugh’s mid-life crisis/conversion was not so perfectly centred as Eliot’s, but it is interesting that he converted and died considerably younger. Greene’s (crisis? &) conversion was clearly at the end of his first Quarter-Cycle, when schizophrenia is relatively even more common than in mid-life (which if I recall correctly is the second most likely period);*** and Greene, of course, is relatively longer-lived (or rather, longer-living, good health to him).

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[Speculatively (not by statistical results but by speculative interpolation into results which were obtained by independent statistical research), creative writing should be at G~ ie c21st March, not at the exact opposite point on the year – as if the statistical occupations &c year itself was turned round to be Outer instead of Inner…. (See [].)]

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