Re: Me and my macaroni

Catherine Marie (tangerineness@hotmail.com)
Tue, 03 Aug 1999 19:40:45 -0700 (PDT) 

Carl,
I felt really motivated to respond to your post, but I'm not quite sure what 
to say besides that I agree completely. I am also a teenager, I'm seventeen. 
It is just so refreshing to hear someone my age who actually cares about 
things that matter. I know people like those you mentioned, I really hate 
people who get A's in english, pretend that they like the books in front of 
the teacher, but talk about how stupid the books are outside of class, and 
just don't care. I am forever concerned when I read. I was the only one in 
my class who really loved F+Z. I am also probably the only one in the school 
who reads S:AI "for fun". Besides my truest friend who I am introducing to 
the Glass family. He will turn out like you were saying, ten times more 
intellegent than those others, or at least in the ways that actually matter, 
but at home with unused degrees in philosophy on the wall, macaroni on the 
stove, attempting to figure out to what extent he is motivated by human 
instinct. I'm wimping out, I guess. I'm going into architecture, not English 
or philosophy, but trust me, if 2007 isn't a good year for architects (and 
in truth architecture is really not a good way to get rich anyways) I will 
be sitting in front of the stove spilling artificial cheese all over my more 
tape than paper copy of F+Z.
               Catherine

>      In school friends of mine, the smarter one at least, read books.
>However I was always sort of disappointed in myself because they had always
>read more than I did.  After I had started reading and writing I felt I
>could have more in common with them.  I had read To Kill a Mockingbird,
>Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, and other almost quintessential
>required high school novels, I found my friends any I could not share what
>we both had read.  They had no opinions on the books the had read.  All 
>they
>said was, "Oh yeah.  I've read that."  They read simply to try to be well
>read.  In the time in takes me to read F&Z they've read 3 more books that
>were once considered great works.  "Oh yeah.  I've read that."  These 
>people
>are the smartest people I know.  Their intellect and mine I would like to
>consider equal.  I just think it's placed in different areas and while
>they'll earn $120,000, I'll be at home reading Seymour an introduction for
>the 39th time with Kraft dinner on the stove.
>               I think the educational system is somewhat to blame for this
>happening but deep down it's the individual.
>
>
>             -Car
>
>
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