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The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest DetectivesLater on I would fail to finish DanteБЂ™s Inferno but be thrilled by Ian McEwanБЂ™s first book of short stories. My best subject in high school was English. I always enjoyed writing essays (which were in effect short stories). One was called БЂњParadoxБЂ«and concerned a man who seemed to be president of the United States but turned out to be an inmate in an insane asylum. My teacher liked it but wondered why IБЂ™d chosen that particular title. It was the name of a Hawkwind song, I told him, and I just liked the sound and look of the word. БЂњAnd no, sir, IБЂ™ve no idea what it means.БЂ«For another essay, we were given the phrase БЂњDark they were and golden-eyedБЂ«and told to use it as our starting point. I wrote about two parents searching a house filled with drug addicts, seeking their errant son. Words were a passion of mine. I would do crosswords and flick through the dictionary, noting interesting words (including, after the exchange noted above, paradox). And those song lyrics for the Amoebas had become poems, one of which I entered for a national competition ...» |
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