Books

I like the way I feel after reading a novel.

My inner dialogue is observant and clear. It has words for things and processes things one after the other.

Stark contrast to when I’m  terminally online. I feel comparably distracted, absent, nonlinear and reactive.

Just finished this

 Now I want to read more fiction

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What was the novel you read as a tween or teen that twisted you up inside and made you feel years older?

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Narcissus and Goldmund (Hesse)
The brothers Karamasov (Dostojewski)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Love in the time of Cholera (Márquez)
On the Road (Kerouac)
Less than Zero (Ellis)

If we take adolescence, then the novel "10,000 leagues under the sea" by Jules Verne made a huge impression on me and the opportunity to feel older than my years.