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>bookish kid
>wanted to be an author
>coasted by in high school with test scores and essays
>got into dream college
>majored in philosophy
>started with the greeks
>also got into psychedelic culture by way of Hunter S. Thompson and Aldous Huxley
>by senior year taking classes on The Phenomenology of Spirit and getting bibles of LSD mailed in from dead family in Cali
>after eating twenty-one hits one weekend, psyche cracks
>probably didn't help that I was reading Capitalism and Schizophrenia at the time
>decide I've discovered the cure to schizophrenia
>announce this to my philosophy grad student friend at a bar
>a schizophrenic 9/10 qt overhears
>tells me she's found the cure too and pulls out Flinstones vitamins
>take one with her and explain my theory
>she explains many theories of her own
>by the following morning I've caught the schizobug
>I can perceive in 4-dimensions for the first time in my life
>I realize Plato was right, all there is is gnosis and theoria and the schizophronetic vision of the forms themselves
>try to reconcile this reality with my own limited and finite life
>come to the conclusion that I must be manipulated by an evil demon à la Descartes
>try to escape the clutches of the demon
>end up in psych ward pumped full of drugs and permanently labeled schizophrenic

Where did I go wrong, /lit/?

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