DADDY-LONG-LEGS (31)

DADDY-LONG-LEGS (31)


    I have a new unbreakable rule : never, never to study at night no matter how many written reviews are coming in the morning. Instead, I read just plain books ー I have to, you know, because there are eighteen blank years behind me. You wouldn't believe, Daddy, what an abyss of ignorance my mind is ; I am just realizing the depths myself. The things that most girls with a properly assorted family and a home and friends and a library by absorption, I have never heard of. For example :

    I never read Mother Goose or David Copperfield or Ivanhoe or Cinderella or Blue Beard or Robibson Crusoe or Jane Eyre or Alice in Wonderland or a word of Rudyard Kipling. I didn't know that Henry the Eighth was married more than once or that Shelly was a poet. I didn't know that people used to be monkeys and that the Garden of Eden was a beautiful myth. I didn't know that R.L.S. stood for Robert Louis Stevenson or that George Eliot was a lady. I had never seen a picture of the " Mona Lisa " and (it's true but you won't believe it ) I had never heard of Sherlock Holmes.

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次の手紙まで、少しだけ伸ばしたいと思います。