50       i will give !       ! read the following excerpt patricia hampl’s “the need to say it” and answer the question. she kept her distance from the printed word of english, but she lavished attention on her lodge newspaper which came once a month, written in the quaint nineteenth-century czech she and her generation had brought to america before the turn of the century. like a wedding cake saved from the feast, this language, over the years, had become a fossil, still recognized but no longer something to be put in the mouth. in the excerpt above, what is not being implied? the author did not see the value in learning czech. grandmother held english books far away from her face. the author loved reading books written in english. grandmother preferred she learned and read books in czech.