Culture That Made Me: Panti Bliss
The book I’ve read most in my life is The Black Stallion by Walter Farley. It was also made into a movie with Mickey Rooney. It’s about a boy who lives with his parents in Arabia. At the beginning of the book, he’s alone on a ship back to the United States. The black stallion is kept below in the ship’s bowels. The ship sinks. The only survivors are him and the stallion. They end up on an island together. Eventually they’re rescued. After the boy had all that time in isolation – him and the stallion just working out their own way to live on the island – he then goes back to the real world and gives two fingers to everybody and wins this huge horserace. That book made such an impression on me as a kid. Read what you like into it.
