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Wilfred Ruprecht Bion
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Frederick W. Farrar : Eric, or, Little by Little
'On Wednesdays the bells of St. Michael's Church on the neighbouring hill pealed for a service or, as some said, "choir practice". They filled me with dread, a reminder of Sunday yet to come. In Eric or Little by Little which I had begun to read, the bell was always tolling. Or the World of School it said, and in that school it seemed that the boys died off like flies.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion Print: Book
: Search the Scriptures
'For hour after hour we did "Search the Scriptures". These were booklets in which texts from a book in the Bible were printed with blank spaces; we were to fill in the chapter and the verse where they could be found. I could not find them; other boys could.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion
Frederick W. Farrar : Eric, or, Little by Little
'Religion was a sore trial ... Dean Farrar contributed to my suspicion of God, and my suspicion of God — "I haven't done anything; really I haven't" — gave ghastly reality to Eric's school in which the mortality should have attracted the attention of authority.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Henry V
'Le Havre, though undamaged by war, was stark and gloomy to march through ... "We are quite near Agincourt", I wrote dutifully to my old history master at school, feeling as far from the thin skin of my patriotism as I could be. "This quarrel honourable" -- of course we all "did" Henry V -- seemed to be some quirk in Shakespeare rather than anything stable in the English character.'
