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>try to read a book
>get into it but mind starts to wander about why the author included certain information, what the point of a certain description is, why the sentence is the way it is, etc.
>lose track of what's going on
>drop book

every time

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>Nietzsche was a failed composer
>Faulkner was a failed poet
>Hemingway was a failed soldier
>Fitzgerald was a failed novelist
>Nabokov was a failed intellectual

Who are some other writers who defaulted to writing after their original plans failed?

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>reading magical realism book
>halfway through
>can't figure out what the magical bits are an allegory for

Is there a worse feel?

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>can find time to shitpost on /lit/ three hours a day
>can't motivate myself to actually read

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