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sektabox t1_iti9twf wrote

Ha! Pynchon was the writer of my very serious interest when I was working on my master's thesis back in Poland, with a special focus on the concept of entropy in the English literature.

After I got my degree (in Canada), I gave up literature and I have to say, without much pride or shame, I've never read a single novel or any work of fiction since then. That was over 25 years ago, when I switched to computer science and that's been my field all that time.

Cool post. Brought back some memories.

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sir_strangerlove t1_itiuo2v wrote

you've had an interesting life

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stinking_badgers t1_itj65vq wrote

What a comment

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ShibaHook t1_itj80mm wrote

I like turtles

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stinking_badgers t1_itjblhk wrote

Marzipan

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Criticalhit_jk t1_itkiqjn wrote

My grandma always had family in Germany send fantastic little marzipan sculptures to her house here in Canada for Christmas. I shit you not they'd send boxes of the stuff - one for eating and one for displaying. They wound up building a bookshelf, basically, that filled up one whole wall to keep them on. Mice, cats, soldier shaped nutcrackers, reindeer, a whole ass nativity scene. All kinds of shit

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imageWS t1_itkyaxl wrote

Maybe they burnt out from all the reading, and then found a different passion. Not that strange.

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howling_greenie t1_itl6ckq wrote

Happened to me. My bachelors is in English teaching, but I got so burned out in college I will go years without reading a single book. When I was in high school, I read a book every week or two and couldn’t get enough. I think it was the atmosphere of being forced to read or teach certain things that held no interest to me and all the essays that amputated the enjoyable aspect of the reading experience for me. I began to have a subconscious distaste for reading at all. I would love to get a passion for reading again.

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sektabox t1_itlehmp wrote

Yes.

You read that correctly.

To make it even weirder, I offer my IT consulting services to a public library among others.

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RustedCorpse t1_itl1069 wrote

Children of Time. I recommend it to all my programmer buddies who miss literature.

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