Socially marooned, I discovered, for the first time, really, the escape of reading.
These are a few particulars I discovered for the first time in John Carey's biography of Golding.
When I was applying for colleges, I discovered for the first time that the colleges I wanted to go to all had Jewish quotas.
He gave up music for the duration to help out, because "I discovered for the first time there was something more important than music".
After negotiating a second traffic jam, I discovered for the first time that Corbyn had used the passage almost exactly in the form I offered it to him (and others).
It is watchable, though, of course, easily mocked: I discovered for myself recently that the joke about adding "-round" to the hero's surname is so prevalent online that it has almost caused Twitter to crash.
Many I discovered for the first time, such as Bernard Levin's TV crits from the 50s and, on the same theme, a couple of absolutely belting ones from Nancy BaNancymith.
"Like most people," Rebecca Turner explained, "the first application I discovered for lucid dreaming was escapism".
I discover this for myself when I go and hunt down my ancient copy of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Yet in old age I discover that, for the young, my chief interest lies in the fact that I have met the great.
