King's College - Cambridge

The commentary on Alan Turing's autopsy, famous World War II crytographer, can be found above. [AMT (K6)] © King's College Archives: Cambridge, UK

The World is an Unfair Place

“These and other unconventional alliances… have given rise to the erroneous assumption that Bloomsbury was promiscuous and emotionally profligate.”

– Frances Spalding, The Bloomsbury Group;

inspired by Alan Turing’s post-mortem analysis (at King's College Archive Centre)


Oh, how I had known!

That my body was pure and innocent,

with a mind riddled with passion

for all of what the world had to offer!


And with it, I sought to seek,

to witness every inch of the world

with my own eyes and mind,

and to learn the world with my own heart.


And thus that heart found him,

with vibrant skin and a halo around his head,

and so I sought to find him,

to follow him,


And after solving the world,

after being the peacekeeper of Earth,

and after doing it all for him,

the reward was nothing but


a rotting cell, a decree of indecency,

and a cyanide apple


Aaron Asparin

King's College, the Cambridge University, was a phenomenal visit, especially for students like myself who are curious about the world's most famous intellects. There, students like myself saw the wonderful campus-- beautiful architecture, olden yet refurbished libraries, and a lawn allowed only for scholars. It was there that the archival administration team provided so many described documents for our review, which consequently led to an amazing archival experience. This poem was, in part, inspired by my disposition as a queer youth, and written in light of Alan Turing's experience as both a "savior of the world," and a homosexual, who was inevitably persecuted and sentenced to prison for indecency, written in specific inspiration through observation of Alan Turing's autopsy and death investigative analysis report. This abhorrent treatment was even enough to cause him to kill himself, via cyanide poisoning, and thus this poem is intended to bring that horrible scenario to the public eye.