Now how do I put this in a nice way? Well, I can’t. I absolutely cannot put this in any way that makes me seem like anything but a jerk. Here it is, though. All of my life, I had been surrounded by smart people, smart women. Intellect is everything to me. Even drunk, it’s everything to me. Here I was with a woman who couldn’t possibly understand the first thing about what I did intellectually. But she was impressed in a way that no woman had ever been impressed with me. When I told her what I did, her eyes grew big, and she said, “Oh, you must be a big brain.” I liked that. Yes, it’s trivial
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