![]() When I was nearly twenty years old, they insisted that I learn a profession even though we were a rich family, and I really didn’t have to work at all. I felt as if I had discovered another Garden of Eden.Īlthough I didn’t tell anyone about my secret world, I decided to spend my life studying the microscope. ![]() I would put one of those spots of green mold under my microscope and see beautiful forests, where strange silver and golden fruit hung from the branches of tiny trees. The fungus that spoiled my mother’s jam was, for me, a land of magic gardens. Day after day, night after night, I studied life under my microscope. I saw a universe of tine living creatures in a drop of water. The first time I looked through its magic lens, the clouds that surrounded my daily life rolled away. MAURICE JOYCE: When I was ten years old, one of my older cousins gave me a microscope. Now, here is Maurice Joyce with part one of "The Diamond Lens." Our story today is called "The Diamond Lens. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Now, the Special English program, AMERICAN STORIES. ![]()
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