How we cite our quotes: (Part.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #1
I will not attempt to describe or name that which I have learnt within the disciplined simplicity of my life as it has latterly been lived. I hope that I am a wiser and more charitable man now than I was then—I am certainly a happier man—and that the light of wisdom falling upon a fool can reveal, together with folly, the austere outline of truth. (Bradley Pearson's Foreword: par. 1)
According to Bradley Pearson, the relationship with P. Loxias that he developed in prison has brought him into the light of wisdom and truth. That's certainly an improvement over what he had before, if his own account is anything to go by.
Quote #2
In this connection I must mention too a not altogether rational idea which I had nourished more or less vaguely for a long time: the notion that before I could achieve greatness as a writer I would have to pass through some ordeal. (Bradley Pearson's Foreword: par. 14)
As Bradley Pearson tells us himself, he spent practically his whole life waiting to experience some kind of hardship or ideal that would transform him as an artist. No wonder he felt kind of happy about being accused of Arnold Baffin's murder. Being branded a criminal in the eyes of the world was just what the doctor ordered as far as his artistic ambitions were concerned.
Quote #3
It remains to record a dedication. There is of course one for whom this book was written whom I cannot name here. With a full heart, to witness duty, not to show my wit, I dedicate the work which you inspired and made possible to you, my dearest friend, my comrade and my teacher, with a gratitude which only you can measure. I know you will forgive its many faults, as you have always with a percipient mercy condoned the equally numerous shortcomings of its author. (Bradley Pearson's Foreword: par. 16)
It would be easy to assume that Bradley Pearson's love affair with Julian Baffin is the experience that brings about the deepest transformation in his life, but the comments we find in his foreword and postscript suggest that this isn't the case. Instead, Bradley's final transformation seems to have come from his relationship with the mysterious P. Loxias, who, among other things, seems to have supplanted Julian in Bradley's heart.