A question of your early eductation

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A question of your early eductation

10-19-2005, 10:14 PM

Mr. Moorcock, I am currently working on a term paper for my British Literature class at my high school which gives a quick biography of yourself followed by my personal reviews of your works. I have just one question of your child-hood... Which school did you first attend? And how long did you take class there? Thank you for your help, take care :D

PS: If this is common knowledge, I'm sorry, I have not been able to find this information anywhere
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10-20-2005, 12:32 AM

Re: A question of your early eductation

Originally posted by IantheHunt

PS: If this is common knowledge, I'm sorry, I have not been able to find this information anywhere

Mike will no doubt answer you directly but in the mean time you might like to check this out:

http://www.multiverse.org/modules.ph...content&tid=44

_"For an eternity Allard was alone in an icy limbo where all the colours were bright and sharp and comfortless.
_For another eternity Allard swam through seas without end, all green and cool and deep, where distorted creatures drifted, sometimes attacking him.
_And then, at last, he had reached the real world – the world he had created, where he was God and could create or destroy whatever he wished.
_He was supremely powerful. He told planets to destroy themselves, and they did. He created suns. Beautiful women flocked to be his. Of all men, he was the mightiest. Of all gods, he was the greatest."
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10-20-2005, 09:06 AM

I don't think it IS common knowledge. It was an infantas school in Robin Hood Lane (I think) Mitcham, Surrey. I didn't go there long, if that's the one I'm thinking of, because it got hit by a V2 (flying bomb) one weekend.
I went to another infants school in Shirley, near Croydon, for a short while and then went to Michael Hall, Sussex, as a boarder. I ran away from there several times until they expelled me for running away, which seemed a bit ironic... Then I went to a private school in Norbury, whose name I forget, then to Pitman's College, which I left at 15. As I used to say on my early paperbacks, I was educated widely but not well. Essentially, I had an uneasy time with my schools and stayed nowhere for very long. I am mostly self-educated and have many of the enthusiasms and attitudes common to auto-didacts, which includes a much broader taste in all the arts than most people of my generation generally have and an enthusiasm for 'obscure' writers and artists. I've noticed that Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider, shows similar attitudes and tastes, though not the same as mine. I was lucky, as I've also said elsewhere, in that I didn't know I was 'too young' to beome a professional writer at 16 and an editor at 17! Another characteristic of self-educated people.

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10-20-2005, 09:07 AM

Sorry, mistyped -- I was at an infant school in Robin Hood Lane...

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10-20-2005, 02:52 PM

Originally posted by Michael Moorcock

Sorry, mistyped -- I was at an infant school in Robin Hood Lane...

That happens. part of our edjimaktione.
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