I think I felt closest to him when he talked about literature, because everything he said I had also experienced but had been unable to express. How life-changing a reading experience can be, how it can fill you with a completely new perception of what life could be, fresh insights into what is worth striving for, worth believing in and defending, what it means to live life to the fullest. I realized that for both of us, something had been missing before those key reading experiences, and that the same would always be true from then on.
