Later Parfit Was the Authentic Parfit

Although Parfit's early life was rich with interests—history, music, sport, chess, journalism, debating, a social circle—he shed them all to become a monomaniac with only two interests, philosophy and photographing the same buildings in Venice and Leningrad each year; Edmonds concludes the later, socially-withdrawn Parfit at All Souls was the more natural and content version of him.