A Short History Of Reading
by Moreno Giovannoni John Clarke, who died a month ago, said it: Our minds were on fire at that age. He was talking about the creativity he discovered in himself when he went to university. In my late teens and early twenties which is more or less the age he was referring to, my mind was “on fire” too, except that I became hungry to absorb knowledge and ideas and if anything create a world view for myself. When it came to reading fiction (and non) for me it had an unusual beginning and then continued…