"More generally, my obsessiveness about books, songs, and films was a beard about growing up, which I didn't want to catch myself doing. I wanted it behind me while it was ahead of me. This exertion of will was also an act of sensory deprivation, of self abnegation. The two- will and deprivation- were weirdly compatible. I tried to obliterate my teenage years in movie theaters because my teenage years embarrassed and saddened me. Between double features of French films, between putting one book down and picking up the next , I'd glance at my wristwatch to see if I was in my twenties yet."
-Jonathan Lethem
The Disappointment Artist
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