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am most interested in people, in meeting ex them and finding out about them. Some of the
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most remarkable people Tve met existed onk
ly in
writer's imagination, then on the pages of his
book, and then again, in my imagination. Ive
found in books new friends, new societies, and
new worlds.
If I am interested in people, others are
interested not so much in who as in how. The or
who in the books includes everybody from
science fiction superman 200 centuries in the
future all the way back to the first figure in sol
history. The how covers everything from the diff
ingenious explanations of Sherlock Holmes to
the discoveries of science and ways of teaching
manners to children
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which
means that it is a little like a sport: Your eagerness
and knowledge and quickness make you a goo
reader. Reading Is fun, not because the writer is
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telling you something, but because it makes your yor
mind work. Your own imagination works along
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