Whether by choice or by circumstance? Haha. J. Alfred Prufrock got ingrained to my English class' collective consciousness because of how we make fun of our English teacher with his high standards. So we do randomly blurt out "eat the peach," "life measured in coffee spoons" and "a pair of scuttling claws under the sea" to each other.
Living a life of drudgery but keeping a sharp mind ready... Don't you wish you could marry the two? Instead of living a double life where you're a transaction handler as your 8-5 or 9-6 but a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional human being during your "off" time?
HAHA, first, I will stand by the second statement, and concede that you are HOT, for knowing Prufrock. Ayun oh.
I guess the phrase that my mind wanders too almost always is "Like a patient etherised upon a table". Which, I suppose speaks to my feeling of being perpetually anaestheticized or something, but I refuse that only because its too obvious and literal.
I used to wish I could marry the two. But it's far too time consuming. Instead, I've decided to do exactly as you describe. I've put a Chinese wall between my dull external work life and my internal personal, intellectual emotional life. In the former, I'm this affable well adjusted persona, not untrue to myself, but definitely filtered and conscious.
From what I read, it was by circumstance that he ended up in the bank. But by choice that he stayed. Apparently he even passed up a chance to write full time, by refusing a sum from the publisher Bloomsbury.
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Living a life of drudgery but keeping a sharp mind ready... Don't you wish you could marry the two? Instead of living a double life where you're a transaction handler as your 8-5 or 9-6 but a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional human being during your "off" time?
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I guess the phrase that my mind wanders too almost always is "Like a patient etherised upon a table".
Which, I suppose speaks to my feeling of being perpetually anaestheticized or something, but I refuse that only because its too obvious and literal.
I used to wish I could marry the two. But it's far too time consuming. Instead, I've decided to do exactly as you describe. I've put a Chinese wall between my dull external work life and my internal personal, intellectual emotional life. In the former, I'm this affable well adjusted persona, not untrue to myself, but definitely filtered and conscious.
From what I read, it was by circumstance that he ended up in the bank. But by choice that he stayed. Apparently he even passed up a chance to write full time, by refusing a sum from the publisher Bloomsbury.
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