![]() ![]() When I finally picked up this book, nearly 60 years later, I was as unfit as ever to read it - for a different reason. Looks? A blank on that score too - I was a bit overweight and ungainly.īut lady luck has doggedly plodded close behind me all my long life!Īnd besides - when I was a kid I was much more intent on doing what the other kids liked to do: have fun and joke around. Later, though, I would be plunged into the thick of it as Head Boy of our new high school. Shy, standoffish, and predisposed to dumb clumsiness, I obviously needed the role model of a misfit like I was, who would bloom under the rigours of his first command.īut being slightly autistic I was averse to authoritarian posturing. I’m sure she saw in me a little Midshipman Hornblower. When I was growing up, my Mom, who doubled as the village librarian, URGED me to read this book. ![]()
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