19. The reason was never explained to us.
20. My father had taught me, on his lap, before I started school - A Child’s, Garden of Verses, and Eugene Field, his favorite poet.
21. I remember a storybook, which soon disappeared, about some Belgian children along a canal escaping from Germans.
22. At any rate, these are all the books I recall from my childhood household. 00:35:37
23. From an early time, I had been a great reader.
24. A few volumes had come with us, I think, from Seattle to Minneapolis, but they were for looking at the pictures on the living-room floor while a grown-up watched, not for reading.
25. But after our parents’ death, almost no books were permitted.
26. Was it to save electricity, or because books could give “ideas” that would make us too big for our boots?
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