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NNadir

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2. Many years ago, in a time I think of as being dead...

Reply to FSogol (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 17, 2021, 11:17 PM

Aug 2021

...I read massive amounts of fiction.

Something in me then wasn't quite alive. Frankly if I met my 25 year old self, I'd despise me.

Now I am running out of time, and there's too much to learn on the way out the door. I have no time for invented lives, real life is too exigent.

As that now very old man Bob Dylan put it, "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now..."

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My sons are annoyed by my refusal to read fiction, but without telling them, I may read... [View all] NNadir Aug 2021 OP

What? Why don't you read fiction? FSogol Aug 2021 #1

Many years ago, in a time I think of as being dead... NNadir Aug 2021 #2

Umberto Eco on Why Unread Books Are The Most Important FSogol Aug 2021 #4

In some ways I agree with the sentiment. NNadir Aug 2021 #5

I read the review - and I think that it would probably be a good read. Dan Aug 2021 #3