It's also because the school years are a time of great intensity and disquiet; a time of raging hormones, peer pressure,
social insecurity, anxiety
about exams, wild enthusiasms, dangerous
experimentation, terrible self - doubt.
The thin loose thread that runs through his countless
experimentations, U-turns and impulsive
about - faces illustrates Vandenberg's immense indignation at urgent
social concerns and exposes a fierce passion for literature, art history and language.