David
“Aristotle wrote it, I read it, and wouldn’t you know it, he was right. And because the copy of his Metaphysics that I first encountered it in belonged to the Reverend King, I copied out this and whatever other snatches of wisdom I wanted to remember into a hardback black leather notebook that my mother surprised me with for my fifteenth birthday, “For the special schooling you doing now with the Reverend King.” When, every Wednesday afternoon at three, the Reverend King would shake my hand at h...is study door and usher me inside for our weekly tutorial, my mother would somehow always manage to be nearby, broom or rag or mop and pail in hand, incapable of looking any prouder unless it had been my study door, the Reverend David King’s, I was disappearing behind.
As long as I kept up with the reading I was supposed to be doing—the Iliad to sharpen my tongue, A Brief Outline of the Evidences of the Christian Religion to buttress my mind, The Genuine Epistles of the Apostolic Fathers, St.MoreLess
As long as I kept up with the reading I was supposed to be doing—the Iliad to sharpen my tongue, A Brief Outline of the Evidences of the Christian Religion to buttress my mind, The Genuine Epistles of the Apostolic Fathers, St.MoreLess
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