How would love for books be developed?
W Somerset
Maugham: Philip starts reading
From:
W Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage,
ch. 9
ON THE following Sunday, when the Vicar was
making his preparations to go into the drawing-room for his nap- all the
actions of his life were conducted with ceremony- and Mrs. Carey was about
to go upstairs, Philip asked:
"What shall I do if I'm not allowed to
play?"
"Can't you sit still for once and be
quiet?"
"I can't sit still till tea-time."
Mr. Carey looked out of the window, but it was
cold and raw, and he could not suggest that Philip should go into the
garden.
"I know what you can do. You can learn by
heart the collect for the day."
He took the prayer-book which was used for
prayers from the harmonium, and turned the pages till he came to the place
he wanted.
"It's not a long one. If you can say it
without a mistake when I come in to tea you shall have the top of my
egg."
Mrs. Carey drew up Philip's chair to the
dining-room table- they had bought him a high chair by now- and placed the
book in front of him.
"The devil finds work for idle hands to
do," said Mr. Carey.
Cf. Somerset Maugham, Discovering
the unreal [at Kierkegaard's margin]
|
Rilke, Letter to a Young Poet |
Plato, Whom are we talking to? |
Kierkegaard, My work as an author
| Emerson, Self-knowledge |
Gibson - McRury, Discovering one's face |
Emerson, We differ in art,
not in wisdom
| Joyce,
Portrait of the Artist
