"I had two thoughts, there and then," Mayne wrote in his
Something about the Author Autobiography Series (
SAAS) entry; "and with those two thoughts my whole life came into a sensible shape. My first new thought ... making sense of everything, was that someone had
written the words 'Issued subject to' and so on;... in time I shall be able to do the same thing; it shall be my career. And the second part of the thought was that some other skilled person had taken those words and in some way turned them into print, not once, but many times.... Life must be simple after that, I knew. There could be nothing more to worry about: I would write down the things that I thought, and have them printed."
A year later, Mayne began attending Cathedral Choir School in Canterbury as a boarder student. The school was in a monastery that had been closed since 1537--four hundred years earlier--and the history of the place imbued every aspect of life there. "What came to me more than the singing was the great continuity of the place, how it had endured and endured," Mayne reflected.
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