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‘Did you get along, go ahead, achieve the goals after your weird youth?”

“I lived in cities and read books, what was weird about that?”

“Cities and books can make even the sanest man quite weird.”

“Well laugh, I was sincere and onto something. If you could only have seen my brain at that time! It was a fierce and righteous animal at the edge of some magnificent horizon.”

“But you must have had some goals at that time? Some sense of where you’d be in middle age.”

“Oh it changed and flowed in and out, strong and weak. I knew I was up to something that most people weren’t. I knew it but they didn’t. That makes a difference.”

“Well, that’s why they say ‘know thyself.’



David Eide
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