This I did not expect: > I learned to write the English I have written by taking three years of Latin, in the putatively desolate educational backwater of Jack

This I did not expect: > I learned to write the English I have written by taking three years of Latin, in the putatively desolate educational backwater of Jacksonville, Florida, ending in the tenth grade translating The Aeneid. I was in homeroom sitting with Allen Collins of Lynyrd Skynyrd.