Four-Eyes’s parents probably wanted their son to be a writer. They must have thought it would be good for him to read books, even if he had to do so in secret. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2000)
“What happened to her books?”“They went up in smoke. Confiscated by the Red Guards, who promptly burnt them in public, right in front of her apartment building.” Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2000)