At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the...

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

J. G. Ballard Quote About Boys, Cathedral, Charles, Clergyman, Copy: At The School I Attended...

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