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Don't read what everyone else is reading. check them out later, cautiously.
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Don't Read What Everyone Else Is Reading.

Ben Okri
Don't read what everyone else is reading. check them out later, cautiously.
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What's wrong with men?" tenar inquired cautiously. as cautiously, lowering her voice, moss replied, "i don't know, my dearie. i've thought on it. often i've thought on it. the best i can say it is like this. a man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." she held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. "it's hard and strong, that shell, and it's all full of him. full of grand man-meat, man-self. and that's all. that's all there is. it's all him and nothing else, inside.
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How this feels is i'm just another task in god's daily planner: the renaissance pencilled in for right after the dark ages. the information age is scheduled immediately after the industrial revolution. then the post-modern era, then the four horsemen of the apocalypse. famine. check. pestilence. check. war. check. death. check. and between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, god's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, god's daily planner has me finished.
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I suppose i could read more fiction, but i haven't moved in that direction. i'd like more time even though i spend six hours a day reading. people say their eyes get tired, but i've never experienced that. in college i used to read 10 hours a day. my wife says i'm obsessive compulsive. she might have a point because when i was an undergrad student we had the required reading list and the suggested reading list. i always read all the suggested reading too.
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