'Suicide represented for him an unacceptable kind of surrender: a surprising attitude, perhaps, in one who held such a sombre view of human existence but one that was as integral to him as this dark assessment itself. This need to see life stoically through - whether it be tragedy or farce - to a natural end derived partly from his Protestant legacy. But it also came from a firm personal determination to go on, refusing stubbornly to give in.' (569)
