These 'rules' were established as principles of morality. Later I was to learn (as I had always suspected) that morality was concerned with larger issues."
1 As a child Konigsburg "... used to read in the bathroom a lot. It was the only room in our house that had a lock on the door, and I could run water in the tub to muffle the sounds of my sobbing over Rhett Butler's leaving Scarlett. Reading was tolerated in my house, but it wasn't sanctioned like dusting furniture or baking cookies. My parents never minded what I read, but they did mind when (like before the dishes were done) and where (there was only one bathroom in our house)."2
"... There was no one to guide my reading, consequently I read a lot of trash along the True Confessions line. I have no objection to trash. I've read a lot of it and firmly believe it helped hone my taste. Besides, I had problems with a lot of the books I read. Nothing I picked up told me anything about the world in which I was living."1
"[In] Mary Poppins ... you get a good glimpse of upper-middle-class family life in England a quarter of a century ago, a family that had basis in fact....
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