Sunday, December 17, 2023
I Must Go to School Again
George Gissing, letter to his sister Margaret (December 17, 1888):
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I thought that I had formed an idea of ancient Rome but I had done nothing of the kind. I had not a notion of such magnificence.
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Wherever you go it is the same. Everywhere the wonderful antiquity haunts you. The Roman life and literature becomes real in a way hitherto inconceivable. I must begin to study it all over again; I must go to school again and for the rest of my life. Ah, if I only could have come here years ago!
