[{"node":{"title":"Parker004","Collections":"Hopdance","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1970","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Tuesday, April 26, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Parker004","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Literature, Tosh","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/parker004","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Parker004_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff- 2 -\n\nII.  A student of literature at the time, and full of certainties at first. To he\n\nnineteen in a warm room, surrounded by books and friendship - the\ncertainties came easy. Outside the window, beyond the great chestnuts and\nthe cultivated lawns, the province yawned along rank and stultifying. On\nSundays he could hear the hounds of heaven in the park, a tinny evangelical\nbaying and barking and the whine of hymns, drifting across the damp grey\nair into his back yard and through the big window to where he stretched\nacross Prudence's tense body for another bottle of Monk from under the bed.\nThe province was without form and void. Darkness moved upon the face of\nthe waters.\n\n He respected Larmour, his tutor, more than the other lecturers in the\nDepartment, though warily and grudgingly, for they agreed on virtually\nnothing.\n\n -You don't find the study of literature a sufficiently rigorous\ndiscipline in itself, Mr. Tosh, without shouldering an additional\nresponsibility for creating it?\n\n The voice was a kind of genial sneer, Larmour perched well back in his\nswivel chair, knees hugged to chest with glee,  perpetual monkey grin, a\nwhiff of satan in the black goatee and the dark, mocking eyes.\n\n -The title of writer is one which I intend to win. Tosh was curt and\nstolid in these encounters, privately convinced of his due destiny.\n\n -Doubtless so, but might you not usefully begin your quest by\nthoroughly acquainting yourself with the unbroken traditions of nine\ncenturies of major achievement?\n\n -Tradition is meaningless to me.\n","Type":"Text"}}]