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[deleted] t1_itkcclo wrote

Reply to comment by sektabox in TIL that the famous author Thomas Pynchon has avoided publicity during his fifty-year career to the point that almost all known photos of him are from the 1950s. However, he voiced himself in two episodes of The Simpsons, where his dialogue consisted entirely of puns on the titles of his books. by IHad360K_KarmaDammit

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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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