Er, hi. I've been reading your writings for a while now, partly out of sheer envy for your wordsmithing talents and interesting life but also because they're so damn entertaining-- but I've never felt such a compelling urge to de-lurk as after reading this gem of an entry.
I'm going into my senior year of high school and find myself perpetually in a state of overwhelmed confusion that probably needs no explanation to you. Reading this was just what I needed. I need "College isn't a road. It's a field of corn." emblazoned in three-foot letters on a poster in my room for the next time I want to burn my college brochures and give up entirely.
I'm pretty sure those silent screams were me hoping for more entries, which explains the odd hours since we're in different time zones. Anyway, thank you for the encouraging words, which I hope to keep in mind while the rest of my peers appear to feast at the stress buffet.
I have in fact read Strange Loop, but I think I'll have to read it again because I think I went at it expecting something like GEB-- which it wasn't at all. So I felt a little let down, because I adored the breadth and depth and sheer exhilarating complexity of GEB and felt Strange Loop to be rather thin and flimsy in comparison. But of course, it's a different book.
Which is a lot of superfluous words for this: I didn't like it as much as GEB, but I intend to give it another shot at pleasing me. Incidentally, I suspect it's good to have your opinions pulverized every once in a while. Else how would you build sandcastles?
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I'm going into my senior year of high school and find myself perpetually in a state of overwhelmed confusion that probably needs no explanation to you. Reading this was just what I needed. I need "College isn't a road. It's a field of corn." emblazoned in three-foot letters on a poster in my room for the next time I want to burn my college brochures and give up entirely.
So thank you.
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I have in fact read Strange Loop, but I think I'll have to read it again because I think I went at it expecting something like GEB-- which it wasn't at all. So I felt a little let down, because I adored the breadth and depth and sheer exhilarating complexity of GEB and felt Strange Loop to be rather thin and flimsy in comparison. But of course, it's a different book.
Which is a lot of superfluous words for this: I didn't like it as much as GEB, but I intend to give it another shot at pleasing me. Incidentally, I suspect it's good to have your opinions pulverized every once in a while. Else how would you build sandcastles?
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