Posted by Kurt Cylke on March 06, 2003 at 16:55:26 from 140.147.107.237 user KurtCylke.
Francis Spufford in his "The Child That Books Built: A Life In Reading" (2002)says "..."I know that at ten I could already hold an Arthur Ransome story about sailing on the Norfolk Broads just as tightly in my mind's grip as I squeezed any of the words I read later about gushing intestines, or about sex. ... The adventures with jibbooms and bobstays triggered no hormonal cascade in me, as some of the things I read nowadays certainly do, but I felt the downrush of an earlier kind of resolving intenbsity...." Kurt Cylke