The Gift of Pastiche

"i suddenly discovered the joy of work and and it was work i was thinking for the first time in my life," he says. "I realized that there was a pleasure in not just the labor which i did enjoy the actual toil" He also talks about his father's influence on him as an artist, who always saw pastiche and reproduction but had no idea what thought is. The author has been studying at Cambridge University since last year with hopes of going into medicine.