Summary of Richard Holloway's Leaving Alexandria

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#1 I had a passion for walking, and I would spend hours exploring the hills around me. I would always go north first, to see the beautiful mountain of Ben Lomond.

#2 I had a love of walking, and I would often go to the Ben and its island-patterned Loch. I would turn to the north first when I got to the top of Carman Hill, and I would always return to the Ben.

#3 I could see the Leven River down below me, and I could see five towns that it passed through: Balloch, Bonhill, Jamestown, Alexandria, and Dumbarton. I imagined my father in one of these towns, dyeing bales of cloth hour after hour.

#4 The town of Alexandria was named after Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Smollett, Member of Parliament for Dunbartonshire in the late eighteenth century. The Smollett family was famous for novelist Tobias Smollett.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822540163

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Insights on Richard Holloway's Leaving Alexandria

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had a passion for walking, and I would spend hours exploring the hills around me. I would always go north first, to see the beautiful mountain of Ben Lomond.

#2

I had a love of walking, and I would often go to the Ben and its island-patterned Loch. I would turn to the north first when I got to the top of Carman Hill, and I would always return to the Ben.

#3

I could see the Leven River down below me, and I could see five towns that it passed through: Balloch, Bonhill, Jamestown, Alexandria, and Dumbarton. I imagined my father in one of these towns, dyeing bales of cloth hour after hour.

#4

The town of Alexandria was named after Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Smollett, Member of Parliament for Dunbartonshire in the late eighteenth century. The Smollett family was famous for novelist Tobias Smollett.

#5

My mother was addicted to the pictures, and she would take me with her twice a week to see them. I got the habit badly and it stuck. I would sit through just about anything, an escape into romance and fantasy for me.

#6

Mary Johnston Luke, who was known as Vallance, was orphaned at ten, and was sent to Quarriers Home in Bridge of Weir, south-west of Glasgow. She was in contact with Whooping Cough and was just discharged from the Observation House, South York Street.

#7

I knew America better than Scotland, because I went to the movies frequently. The America I saw on the screen at the Strand was the picture house in Bank Street, which had a particular memory for me. I saw The Jolson Story there, and I remember seeing it because the event is attached to an electrifying memory.

#8

I was always excited to go to the movies, and I would often take trips there by myself. I was always excited to join a children’s pipe band, but my father took me to register for it the next week.

#9

The movies had a significant impact on me. They increased a tendency to watch myself play a role rather than unselfconsciously get on with my life, and they instilled a sense that authentic life was a drama packed with struggle against adversity.

#10

I began to feel guilty about my stories, and stopped telling them. I began to believe my stories,