i thought i'd share some meangingful excerpts with you from
kitty kellys THE FAMILY!
on gwBUSH, page 253
George's first English assignment was to write an essay about an emotional experience. He chose his sister's death.
He struggled to find the right words. He wanted to write "and the tears ran down my cheeks," but he had already used the word "tears" several times. So he turned to the the thesaurus his mother had given him when he left home. He searched for another word for "tears". He wrote: "And the lacerates ran down my cheeks."
The essay was returned to him with a big red zero. Scrawled across the top were the words: "DISGRACEFUL. See me immediatley." George was so scared, he asked his friends, "How am I going to last a week?"
Years later he told the "lacerates" story to illustrate how poorly prepared he was for the rigors of Andover. Neither his previous education nor his home life had fostered any kind of appreciation for learning. He did not realize that most fifteen-year-olds of his social and educational level would have known the difference between "tears" as a noun and "tears" as a verb.
on ghwBUSH, page 278
He later explained this ambition to an interviewer: "I want to score and then be captain, get promoted and then be the boss, acheive something and then get elected to something else."
To him life was a series of successes in which he would always wind up on top. There was never any sense of ideological purpose. It was only about winning.
are you reading
kitty kellys THE FAMILY?
what do you think?