2.3.06
Ern Malley Not The Only Famous Writer To Work As Mechanic
After finishing the course, I worked for two years as a mechanic at a car repair shop. By that time I had already started to frequent, in its evening opening hours, a public library in Lisbon. And it was there, with no help or guidance except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
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used to read on the job, when i worked as a janitor, manager of a recycling facility and at campbell's soup factory. spent my apprenticeship, if you can call it that, as a knockabout student at by day, janitor at night. then later a manager by day and a student at night. many long blissed-out hrs learning to read / write.
did you find the link to the Saramago piece Richard? It's fairly obscure, you have to click on the first "I". love it that his surname comes from a local herb ...
i did, martin, not a problem finding it.
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