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Originally Posted by BelleZora
Rarely, or never, has a book added so much to my vocabulary, thanks to the updated Kindle.
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this is a comforting thought for me!
I don't have much to add to what has already been said, and so well - and I also very much doubt that a working class boy of a similar age would have embarked in such a journey - not to mention a girl!
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Originally Posted by ClareK
Boys studying Classics or the Humanities, drunk with literature, music, art, and full of excitement about new places they had visited, people they had met from different walks of life.
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Yes, drunk is the word - but what struck me is how much more naive Fermor is when it comes to politics: there are many quite crude generalizations (the checks, the slavs, and so on, let alone the gipsies) which I found quite out of tune with the rest of the narrative.