a ty sex book. God kno set up to be a  if you’d asked me t Me, or (in memory of t ention of reading. But to do, reaming doaring me in temporary s t. Naturally I started to read to end,  t as muctempt to discriminate as a pig s hrough a pail of garbage.

    But in among t  from t it  run a I suddenly discovered Marcel Proust or   in t  no so  you strike a book  tal level you’ve reac t, so muc it seems to ten especially for you. One of tory of Mr Polly, in a cion  it o be broug up, try too come across a book like t? Anoton Mackenzie’s Sinister Street. It  in Loory, parts of  started you t story of D. . I don’t remember t. It ory about a German conscript ification and ts caug puzzled me a lot. I couldn’t make out  , and yet it left me  I’d like to read some ot.

    ell, for several montite for books t  like p. It  real go-in at reading t I’d  to set about getting  to buy t’s interesting, I t s Mudie’s and times Book Club er I learned of tence of lending libraries and took out a subscription at Mudie’s and anot a library in Bristol. And  year or so! ells, Conrad, Kipling, Galst Ridge, Oliver Onions, Compton Mackenzie, on Merriman, Maurice Baring, Stept, Antepratton Porter.  list are knoo you, I ook seriously in tten no at t’s got in among a s revelled in ter a bit, of course, I greinguisripe and not-tripe. I got  of , and I got a lot of kick out of Oscar ilde’s Dorian Gray and Stevenson’s Neers and liked it, and I tried several of  stuck about  Ibsen,  in Nor’s always raini