Comment

Abstract

FOR GOOD and ill, most of my first adventures with books—the events that really started me off on the Great Paper Chase—happened thanks to some local library or other. Things really started happening during my twelfth year, when a friend of mine at the Grammar School (I was a ‘Technical Hitch’ myself at the time) lent me a book he had borrowed from the school library: a collection of stories by H G Wells. I've never really been the same since reading that book: for one thing, I've never been able wholly to believe in the Two Cultures controversy. But Wells was my first ‘god’. Searching for my own copy of the stories—shyly, hesitatingly—was like searching for the milk of Paradise.

Citation

Griffin, B., Alam, F., Duckworth, A., Revill, D. and Palmer, B.I. (1976), "Comment", New Library World, Vol. 77 No. 2, pp. 25-29. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb038289