Walter Bowne talks about how we often become the person we admire in the books we read and the stories we hear; as you write your own autobiography, a condensed bildungsroman, a novel of the development of a character, listen to this passage from David Copperfield; notice the long list of books, and what youg David felt about these books, and characters; he reveals much about himself, and no one really cared for this tiny room with his father's books except young David, That young David, is course, or will become, the great Charles Dickens.