Passage One
From the first, learning was easy to Leonard. No subject bored or defeated him at school, and he was interested in practically everything. He loved history, sports literature, poetry, and games, and took foreign languages in stride. He now commands several, including Hebrew. Since his father absolutely refuse to let him study music, Leonard tried to teach himself on Clara’s upright piano. There was no question in his mind that he had to be a musician; music was not a subject, it was life itself. He could not do without it. After a long battle, he offered to give up all pocket money if he could take piano lessons, and Samuel, his father, gave in. From then on Leonard learned with shameful ease by playing all scores that he could borrow from the public library and the tunes he heard on the radio. “I don’t think that there was such a thing as technical difficulties for him,” says his former piano teacher. There was no such thing as a one-hour lesson either. He never had enough; he was never out of questions. He wanted to know all the music in the world
41 – Leonard learned foreign languages…………..