I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.
“I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.”
“Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.”