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| 43 (Footnote) , "Don Quixote de la Mancha" 44 (Footnote) and "One Thousand and One Nights" 45 (Footnote) . She said the authors of these stories showed that it is more important to have great spirit and imagination than great skill or power. I could not answer a lot of her questions, so I consulted with the people in the outer room for answers. Most of these had to do with technical and scientific things. A few of her questions were about the humanities. The depth of complex understanding and subtlety of her questions showed that she had a very penetrating intellect. Personally, I think she had already known a lot more about the culture and history of Earth than she was willing to admit when we started. I would soon discover how much more" 41 Chapter Six My Education Begins MATILDA O'DONNELL MACELROY PERSONAL NOTE) By the 15th day after "rescuing" Airl from the crash site, I was able to communicate fluidly and effortlessly with her in English. She had absorbed so much written material by this time that her academic education far exceeded my own. Although I graduated from high school in Los Angeles in 1940 and attended college for four years of premedical and nursing training, the variety of my own reading had been fairly limited. I had not studied most of the subjects to which Airl had now been exposed, especially considering her acute understanding, very intense study habits and a nearly photographic memory She was able to recall long passages from books she read. She was especially fond of sections of her favorite stories from classic literature like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Download 2 Mb. Share with your friends:
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