anchor: But as I sat alone in my bed, reading over all those great stories of all those great men, I couldn't help wonder...what were they like? How did they live? How close were they to the legends they inspired? The Founders- they had a whole mountain carved out in their image.
positive: I sat alone and pondered about the stories I had read and the people in them.
negative: I had never read a book before and wondered what they were like.