[…], I was also expected to read the entire canon of Greek and Latin literature within one year, which if you look at the length of certain things, like Plato's Republic, is quite subtle. And I realised, though I was pretty good grammar. So far, I never really had a feel. I got rather involved with the[…]
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[…] great thinkers and that so I found mys lf now getting out Schoppenhauer and Bergsen and Nietz9che and all the different philosophers and things, and Plato, and devouring those. And I' d buy a dictionary, more expense. And that I suppose led to my, Shaw gave me the feeling that you could set out and[…]