Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale...

[Kneale Brownson]

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At 10:34 AM 02/16/2002 +0000, Jim Haseltine wrote:


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brett Dikeman" <brett at cloud9.net>
> >
> > Blech.  We got to read stuff like Old Man and the Sea.  What a horrid
>book.
> >
>
>We had to read that one too. Then to really crush any desire to read
>'classic' novels that we might still harbour - Far From The Madding Crowd
>was our set book for the English Literature 'O' Level exam.

Of course, The Old Man was a NEW book when I was in school  :~) .   Reading
Far From made me want to read Hardy's other novels.   Maybe that's why I
didn't take up car fixing until it was the only way I could keep driving
the car I enjoyed.

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