
Ep. 53 - Alex Garland
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The Strange Secret of Reading
I don't read. I think this is partly because I've got a sort of OCD ish or OCD is not the right word, but it's it's overly concerned with deconstructions. And so I find reading books, like having 10 people shouting at me at the same time, because I immediately start looking at sentence structure punctuation. What why is this adjective there? It freezes me so quickly. So what happened for a while was that the only books I could read for a few years were books I'd already read. And then I kind of checked out and it's like a version of that annihilation thing where so what my friend was saying was it's not just
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