Paperboy
“I kept notes of everything I read and liked, along with lists of words that were inexplicably pleasing. Some words could be rolled around the mouth and savoured like melting ice cream. My current favourites were: Peculiar Colonial Ameliorate Serpentine Paradise Emerald Illumination.1 There were words I hated as well, ones with sharp edges, all Ks and Xs that dug into you and were awkward to spell. Generally, the rules of spelling and grammar were easy to follow. I could not understand why so ma...ny people made such simple mistakes. It vexed me to see the greengrocer placing signs on his fruit filled with random punctuation, like Potato’s 1/6d or “Finest” tomatoes. I made fun of him so much that he threw sprouts at me.
Mrs Clarke, the librarian, allowed me to raid the reference section and read whatever I wanted, on the condition that I stayed inside the library to do so. Folding my pale bare legs beneath me, I pulled down one volume after another. One book, Uses of Speech, stopped me in my tracks because it turned out that there were all these devices you could use to illustrate prose.MoreLess
Mrs Clarke, the librarian, allowed me to raid the reference section and read whatever I wanted, on the condition that I stayed inside the library to do so. Folding my pale bare legs beneath me, I pulled down one volume after another. One book, Uses of Speech, stopped me in my tracks because it turned out that there were all these devices you could use to illustrate prose.MoreLess
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