Get a load of Jonathan Franzen talking about his reading list: "Just when you’re thinking you’re intellectually alone in the world, something like [INSERT ANYTHING HERE, perhaps The Island?] falls in your hands."
When you think you're smarter than everyone else, you start seeing proof of it everywhere. In this, Mr. Franzen surely has a great deal of company.
"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation." - Montaigne
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Get a load of Jonathan Franzen talking about his reading list: "Just when you’re thinking you’re intellectually alone in the world, something like [INSERT ANYTHING HERE, perhaps The Island?] falls in your hands."
When you think you're smarter than everyone else, you start seeing proof of it everywhere. In this, Mr. Franzen surely has a great deal of company.
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