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[wispfox]

aelisdeliria lent me a book, called _Welcome to the Ark_, by Stephanie S. Tolan. It's... captivating. I _must_ own this book.

The reason I'm writing right now is a quote which I had to share...

"How smart do you feel?"
"Comparatively?"
"No. Just you yourself. How smart do you really feel?"
"Truth?"
"Of course, truth!"
"I've spent my whole life trying not to know how scary it was to have people call me the smartest kid in the world. Because I don't know anything."


*shiver* Yeah. Not to that degree, but yeah.

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Re: *shiver*

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

I've found that as I've learned more that one of the principle things that I learn is how little I know.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

t-shirt.

(well, that and then additionally being annoyed when people were surprised when i do/say something smart.)

n,

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

I have a slightly odd take on this.

I think that I'm actually not very smart at all - I feel dumber than "average" - yet somehow most other people are even dumber.

(My worst nightmare was where I was *significantly* more intelligent than I am while awake, in ways that I now find difficult to describe but subjectively remember. I could, for example, acquire fluency in a new language by staying up all night, and in the dream, I could tell you how I was doing this and what it felt like at every intermediate stage. I thought more quickly, more effectively, more *interestingly*, more **beautifully**. Then I woke up and was stupid again. I cried for hours. I'm still haunted by it.)