The best moments in reading are when you
come across something – a thought, a feeling,
a way of looking at things – which you had
thought special and particular to you. Now you
have it, set down by someone else, a person
you have never met, someone who is long
dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and
taken yours.
--Hector, a history teacher in "The History Boys," play by Alan Bennett (1934- )
