Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Everything is fiction.
tbh you should have read everything great in your language by 30
>getting filtered by an entire trans-continental literary tradition that has existed since ancient times.
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Truth; it has been spoken
This was far too well written and thought out to be a IQfy post, so it's obviously been copy pasted by C.S. Lewis.
Why were the inklings so based? Why does their unrepentant joy and love of literature cause so many to seethe?
A man should not start reading till he is 30. A lack of life experience will cause one to not appreciate literature to the utmost
Philosogayotry is known to start after 30 if it has not already done so previously.
>listening to gays who post stuff from Peter Jackson’s flicks
I’ll do whatever I want lmao
Your a gay and you’re shits moronic
I have less than 3 years left, fuaaark
>reading
If you're over 30 you should spend your free time researching stocks.
Just buy stocks in good companies.
It. Literally. Is. That. Easy.
No. Study investing, yes. Study stock picking, no.
thank god a random nobody on a japanese anime board told me that
gonna need to throw away all my books now...
Fair enough; I’ll enjoy the next 9 years while I can
A man after 30 should start moving towards the disillusion of the ego, he should literally start unbecoming.
Reading and writing was the biggest mistake Mankind ever made. I wish I was hunting mammoths right now.
people that have never benefited me, but try to make me feel shame for anything are idiots.
your opinion is worthless.
The only sort of man obsessed with being seen as manly is the sort of man who is actually a boy pretending to be a man.
and trying to be a man by what you read. lol. the toughest egghead i'll ever meet