Et si je m'en allais aux Indes? Some thirty-nine years ago I read 'Darkness at Noon,' and understood it. The world may, I think, be divided between those understand 'Darkness at Noon,' text and sub-text, and those who don't. It depends, perhaps, on whether one's values are, or are not, essentially humanist, or, in a positive sense, anti-fascist. Tiresome topic. Anyway, I did understand the whole hideous message of 'Darkness at Noon,' and I stood warned.