Singularity at Eleven

Something big shifted in the psyche

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There was something that shifted at age eleven, which was that I read books I would not read now because they are too difficult. The most puzzling experience with books was with Homer, which I found in the attic of a rented apartment in the Arizona desert. I began to read the Iliad and Odyssey, and went through the words into the experience of being there, and…