... speaker could no longer find escape in fiction as it soon becomes his reality. Immediately into the poem, Larkin writes "[w]hen getting my nose in a book/Cured more things short of school", revealing how through reading he was able to find remedy to his troubles. He then follows with "It was worth ruining my eyes," which inevitably does ... ...

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