We would start them all as friends , cool , gentle enough , but as we flung on under monstrous heat , sealed in sweat and dirt , hearts thudding , there would come a moment of pitch when someone would shout " now war ! "
Yet more than 25 years have passed since I sat finals and still I wake at night with my heart thudding , dreaming that I had forgotten to revise , or had had to take physics instead of philosophy .