Friday, August 30, 2013

proper education

I left him half an hour later. Under my arm I was clasping three books: a copy of James Joyce's Dubliners; one of the little green volumes of the Constance Garnett translation of Chekhov's short stories; and Turgenev's A Sportsman's Notebook. My education proper had at last begun.

- Colin Middleton Murry, One Hand Clapping