Champion Horse (2013)
“That also meant that I left Mom and Dad to talk about my lessons with Ralph Carmichael on their own, no nagging from me. So, I employed some magic charms: I worked out all twenty geometry problems and both of the extra-credit ones. I wrote my one-page paper on the myth of Sisyphus, which was about a guy who pushes a rock up a hill every day, only to have it roll back down every night. I read the first two chapters of David Copperfield, which I had not been looking forward to ever since we read ...another book by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. David Copperfield looked like more of the same, only longer, and we would be reading it for four weeks. I also studied for my test on the differences between magma, pumice, basalt, lava, and tephra. I memorised where the volcanoes were: the Pinnacles, thirty miles away, which hadn’t erupted in twenty-five million years, and Mount Shasta, which erupted in 1786.The teacher said that we would get to earthquakes next week, which I was not looking forward to.MoreLess
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