The Princess Bride
“I’ll do my best to explain. As a child, I had simply no interest in books. I hated reading, I was very bad at it, and besides, how could you take the time to read when there were games that shrieked for playing? Basketball, baseball, marbles—I could never get enough. I wasn’t even good at them, but give me a football and an empty playground and I could invent last-second triumphs that would bring tears to your eyes. School was torture. Miss Roginski, who was my teacher for the third through fif...th grades, would have meeting after meeting with my mother. “I don’t feel Billy is perhaps extending himself quite as much as he might.” Or, “When we test him, Billy does really exceptionally well, considering his class standing.” Or, most often, “I don’t know, Mrs. Goldman; whatare we going to do about Billy?”Whatare we going to do about Billy? That was the phrase that haunted me those first ten years. I pretended not to care, but secretly I was petrified. Everyone and everything was passing me by.MoreLess
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