Spencer Gordon

There is no ME without books; they__e everything I remember from childhood, from maturity _ All that__ happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading.

the romance of solitude and small places, the blurring of identity.

Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.