just one little quote that caught my eye “It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the

just one little quote that caught my eye “It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the underpaid professor is that he has to do menial jobs. He is expected to maintain a certain position and to send his children to good schools. Well, one day I came to a blank page in an exam book and I scribbled on it. ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.’”