  If these remarks were autobiographical there is no hint of it within the article. But Prior was more forthcoming in an unpublished seven-page manuscript dated 25 March 1942 (Prior 1942b, Jakobsen 2016). There he made it clear that he no longer considered himself a Christian, speaking of his ‘Christian days’ in the past tense, and denying that his ongoing interest in theology was a ‘relapse into Christianity’.