I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that.
But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.