| abstract | - As a Marxist, Carr didn't have actual parents, instead he had two archetypes of the class structure he was born into. This led Carr, from the age of four onwards, to refer to his father as 'Archetypal Domineering Victorian Patriarch' and his mother as 'Archetypal Submissive Victorian Matriarch'. This annoyed his parents so much that they sent him off to boarding school to avoid his constant Marxist classification of everything. After leaving his boarding school Carr went to Cambridge University to study Classics, as for some reason History wasn't considered 'serious' enough for young Edmund to study. It was during his time at Cambridge that Carr began to experiment with drugs. Carr soon developed a penchant for heroin, and his essay 'Heroin: It's my Wife and It's my Life' was to inspire the famous song by The Velvet Underground of the same name. Despite his heavy usage of drugs, Carr earned a First in Classics and went on to have a successful career as a banjo act in the thriving Music Hall tradition that continued unabated in England at the time.
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