He also flowered intellectually during his last two years in high school and found himself at the intersection, as he had began to see it, of those who were geekily immersed in electronics and those who were into literature and creative endeavors. “I started to listen to music a whole lot, and I started to read more outside of just science and technology—Shakespeare, Plato. I loved King Lear.” His other favorites included Moby-Dick and the poem of Dylan Thomas. I asked him why he related to King Lear and Captain Ahab, two of the most willful and driven characters in literature, but he didn’t respond to the connection I was making, so I let it drop. “When I was a senior I had this phenomenal AP English class. The teacher was this guy who looked like Ernest Hemingway. He took a bunch of us snowshoeing in Yosemite.” (Chapter 1 Childhood: School)
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高中生涯的最後兩年裏，喬布斯的心智也迅速發展成熟。他開始發現自己是兩類人的交集：他既沉浸在電子學的浩瀚海洋裏，又愛上了文學和各種創造性努力。“我開始聽很多音樂， 我也開始讀很多科學領域外的書籍，像莎士比亞和柏拉圖。我很喜歡《李爾王》這本書。” 他的心頭愛還包括美國小說《白鯨》和英國詩人狄蘭·托馬斯的`作品。我曾經問過他，爲什麼會喜歡李爾王和亞哈船長這兩個角色，他們是文學史上最任性、最執着的經典角色。不過他沒有理會我的這種聯想，我也自此揭過不提。“讀高中四年級的時候，我上了一門大學英語預修課程，這門課太棒了。教我們的老師長得很像美國作家海明威。他還帶我們一幫學生去優山美地國家公園玩雪。”
