A quotation.

Alexandria 2022-03-24 08:01:03

"The best moment in reading are when you come across something...a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things that you'd thought special, particular to you, and here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And...it's as if a hand...has come out...and taken yours."-- From Hector

. A middle school teacher reading poetry and literature with eight young boys. The only consolation may be to give them their own "benedictions" every time in the name of taking them home.
He originally wanted to have a car full of books and travel the world. He eventually passed away in a car accident. Maybe this is his life.
Asking for but not getting it, boundless loneliness, only books can comfort me.
However, it was never a soft, warm, real hand, was it?

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Extended Reading
  • Zane 2022-04-01 09:01:18

    Sure enough, this film is the essence of the corrupt country, and the debate is full of poetry and history! Be sure to look for books. (That's what I yelled at after watching Keats' film..) And there are all kinds of handsome guys, it's just uncontrollable. QAF's translation is really good, awesome!

  • Destini 2022-03-31 09:01:09

    When the books on the desk piled up, when the notebooks were changed one by one, when the French became chapters, when the classic quotations flowed out, I seemed to see how the polymaths of the Renaissance were made...

The History Boys quotes

  • Lockwood: Posner would make a good monk. 'Cept he's a Jew.

    Crowther: Do Jews have monks?

    Posner: Yes. I'm one now.

  • Hector: [hector during his general studies class with the boys] i'll let you in on a little secret boys. there is no such thing as general studies. general studies is a waste of time. knowledge is not general. it is specific.