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Unit 1
The idea of becoming a writer had come to me off
and on since my childhood in Belleville, but it wasn't
until
my
third
year
in
high
school
that
the
possibility
took
hold.
Until
then
I'd
been
bored
by
everything
associated
with
English
courses.
I
found
English
grammar
dull
and
difficult.
I
hated
the
assignments
to
turn
out
long,
lifeless
paragraphs
that
were
agony
for
teachers to read and for me to write.
When
our
class
was
assigned to
Mr. Fleagle
for
third-year
English
I
anticipated
another
cheerless
year in that most tedious of subjects. Mr. Fleagle had
a
reputation
among
students
for
dullness
and
inability
to inspire. He was said to be very formal, rigid and
hopelessly out of date. To me he looked to be sixty or
seventy and excessively prim. He wore primly severe
eyeglasses, his wavy hair was primly cut and primly
combed. He wore prim suits with neckties set primly
against the collar buttons of his white shirts. He had
a
primly
pointed
jaw,
a
primly
straight
nose,
and
a
prim
manner
of
speaking
that
was
so
correct,
so
gentlemanly,