Look at what a lot of things there are to learn.
T.H. White on learning. (The Commonplace Book Project)
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“Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King
Yesterday, I saw The Kid Who Would be King. I enjoyed it for a couple of reasons, not the least of which is that the boy who played the kid who would be king reminded me so much of how I imagine my husband to have been when he was twelve.
Well, an English schoolboy version of him.
And, because I based one of the main characters in my new book The Astonishing Maybe on what I imagine my husband was like when he was twelve, he reminded me of Gideon, too.
