what do i want?

Well..

I want to able to listen to recordings of piano sonatas and know who's playing... I want to be fully engaged in the World of Ideas, I want to understand complex economics, and what people see in Bob Dylan... I want to use words like 'eponymous' and 'solipsistic' and 'utilitarian' with confidence... and I want to be able to speak many languages fluently, and maybe even a dead language or two, and to carry a small leather-bound notebook in which I jot incisive thoughts and observations, and the occasional line of verse. Most of all I want to read books; books as thick as a brick, leather-bound books with incredibly thin paper and those purple ribbons to mark where you left off; cheap, dusty, second-hand books of collected verse, incredibly expensive, imported books of incomprehensible essays from foreign universities.

No, really.. what I want is:

At some point, I'd like to have an original idea.

"Starter for Ten", David Nicholls, p.12

p.s.
(1) I started reading this on our holiday, it's hilarious.
(2) I came very close to reading "incomprehensible essay" at times, and I do 'see' that there is something about Bob Dylan, I just can't figure out what it is yet.

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