![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Two kinds, really: the specific experience of encountering a book or work of art and also the future experience, the state of perfectly cultivated being, that awaits you at the end of the search. It’s a hunger not so much for knowledge as for experience of a particular kind. Viewed with the chastened hindsight of adulthood, their seriousness shows its ridiculous side, but the longing that drives it is no joke. Culturally ravenous young people have always been insufferable and never unusual, even though they tend to invest a lot in being different - in aspiring (or pretending) to something deeper, higher than the common run. But those changes aren’t what this essay is about. That pursuit required more effort back then, when nothing was streaming and everything had to be hunted down, bought or borrowed. I spent my adolescence in a terrible hurry to read all the books, see all the movies, listen to all the music, look at everything in all the museums. ![]()
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