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I really haven't-- even though
I took AP English courses,

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I was kind of a bad student.

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So I really, I would just
read to get along to get by.

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So I wasn't really
invested in literature

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and/or language on
a really deep level.

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But I was reading
throughout high school.

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I was reading like Star
Trek novels, comic books,

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that kind of stuff.

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More from the comics.

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More, yeah.

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So I was engaged.

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And I still remember
even as a boy,

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I always had this kind of
engagement with language.

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As a boy, as a young
boy, I remember

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sitting at the breakfast
table and rereading

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the back of the cereal boxes
again and again and again.

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I mean, how many times
is Captain Crunch

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is going to do
something surprising?

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It's the same thing,
again and again.

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I remember reading those
boxes, again and again.

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So I always-- maybe it's an
innate sense or fascination,

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obsession with language?

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But that obsession wasn't
nurtured until college

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like that.