Shit, you're making me sound like a normal goddamn teenager.
Rilke, huh? Never heard of him, but he's a powerful writer. [He enjoyed reading that. It must have meant a lot to the protégé.] And it sounds like when he wrote that he had lived a hell of a life.
I'm sorry to say that apart from the brain damage and the ability to dismantle reality, you seem exceedingly normal to me.
[ He thinks he can trust by now that Accelerator will find any candid jabs a mark of respect and not mockery. ]
I'm glad you liked it. It's always stuck with me. He was a complicated man -- born in Austria at the advent of World War I, he saw the worst of humanity but hoped there could still be something better. The book 1984, actually, is a commentary on the society Rilke found himself admiring.
I wouldn't know. Maybe they weren't, maybe they just didn't give a shit. It's not like any of those researchers liked me.
[So why would they ever bother?]
I guess I am. I've read poetry for school and didn't hate it. I never read it for fun back home, but we've got so much downtime here that I don't see why I shouldn't try expanding my fucking genre preferences.
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Rilke, huh? Never heard of him, but he's a powerful writer. [He enjoyed reading that. It must have meant a lot to the protégé.] And it sounds like when he wrote that he had lived a hell of a life.
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[ He thinks he can trust by now that Accelerator will find any candid jabs a mark of respect and not mockery. ]
I'm glad you liked it. It's always stuck with me. He was a complicated man -- born in Austria at the advent of World War I, he saw the worst of humanity but hoped there could still be something better. The book 1984, actually, is a commentary on the society Rilke found himself admiring.
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[Not that Harold couldn't guess that on his own at this point.]
Really? You got a couple books of his you can recommend, too?
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[ In other words, he'd have to let them in for them to even observe it to be the case. ]
Are you interested in poetry? The letters themselves are collected in a volume titled Letters to a Young Poet.
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[So why would they ever bother?]
I guess I am. I've read poetry for school and didn't hate it. I never read it for fun back home, but we've got so much downtime here that I don't see why I shouldn't try expanding my fucking genre preferences.