One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
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shut himself indoors on a self-imposed program to read all the world’s great novels;
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It must be hard being Ricardo Montalban in heaven, thought Tim.
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Indeed, worldwide totals of food production and of people living in poverty simultaneously hit all-time highs this year (see Regular News).
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The pleasures of youth are smothered in the mind’s crib by the much-praised pillow of your own awareness. Activities are to be mastered, friends are to be impressed, and life is to be learned, not lived.
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Years of neglect from loved ones about the peculiar challenges of my predicament – particularly with regard to maintaining the delicate and necessary self-restorative cycle of mindfulness and mindlessness that comes much more naturally to those whose inner cerebral acrobatics are not permanently set to emergency-high levels of attention-demand – led to a series of emotional breakdowns over the course of my life that have spangled my generally extraordinary intellect with the welcome-textured scars of impulsive thinking and counterproductive endeavors, as well as flash-bouts of radically ...more