While in the Navy during World War II, on my last night ashore, instead of getting drunk with my shipmates, I went to a bookstore, spent all my money buying Modern Library classics, and, my arms laden, carried them back to the ship.

Between engagements in the Pacific, I dueled beside Cyrano de Bergerac, agonized over the infidelity of Anna Karenina, charged against windmills with Don Quixote and sought to win back an old love with Gatsby.

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