George Saunders
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Podcast Appearances
But so anyway, that was โ I was a pretty โ in retrospect, a pretty strange kid actually, you know, pretty intense.
And this was all ideas-based, you know, about my sort of primacy in the universe, you know.
So thank goodness I didn't just get killed.
Yeah, thank you for this.
I think it was the one time where the wild inner life, one of the few times where the wild inner life might have intersected with reality.
I might have given reality a chance to correct me.
But I had a very, I mean, in retrospect, very wild mind.
But I mean, at that point, there was kind of a, I was kind of a sweet kid who believed strongly in whatever appeared in his mind and then tried to act on it.
I think sometimes it was just funny, you know, like a deranged.
Or at least seeking that, you know, and sometimes getting it wrong.
But I was always seeking some kind of right-wrong mix in the world.
Could I substitute a nun in when I realized that nun was really human?