Literary References
James has to do a report in his French class, and ends up doing a second for another student, leading to guilt about cheating.
- Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus" (essay}
James takes a part-time job in a medical office and answers the distressed call of a man with urinary retention and thinks of an episode in a book he read. Though he realises later he should not have given medical advice, the incident starts him to think he should be a doctor.
- John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley
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“I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.”
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