Writer. Hanging with Pre-Raphaelites. Gardening with Darwin. Math with Lewis Carroll. Angela Carter. Francesca Woodman. Feminism. 1960-70s Counterculture.
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader."