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Show WHAT MIRO READ AT SCHOOL Youngster's Initiation Into Culture Was Made "Almost a Religious Re-ligious Mystery." At school Mlro was early Impressed with the vast dignity of the literary works and names he was compelled to learn. Shakespeare and Goethe and Dante lifted their plaster heads frown-ingly frown-ingly above the teacher's as they perched perch-ed on shelves about the room. Much w:ns said of the greatness of literature. But the art of phonetics and the complications com-plications of grammar-swamped Miro's early school years. It was not until he reached the high school that literature began really to assume that saeredness which he had heretofore felt only for holy Scripture, Randolph Bourne writes in Yale Review. His initiation into culture was made almost a religious mystery by the conscientious and harassed teacher. As the "Deadwood Boys" and "David Ilarum" slipped away from Miro's soul In the presence of Milton's "Comus," and Burke "On Conciliation" a eullural devoulness was engendered in him that never really died. At first It did not tnke Mlro beyond the stage where your conscience Is strong enough to make you uncomfortable, but not strong enough to make you do anything about It. Mira did not actually become an omnivorous render of great books. But he was filled with a rich grief that the millions pursued cheap and vulgar Action Ac-tion instead of tlte best that has been thought and said In the world. Mlro indiscriminately bought cheap editions of the English clusslcs and read them with a certain patient uncompreheiid-lngness. |