The magicians book series6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() The rest of it, I just sort of ground my way out but we’ve gone off the topic. And I think I won a writing prize my junior year of high school and it was the first time I ever felt I had a gift for anything. ![]() But I wasn’t bright enough just to sail through I had to really flog myself through it. I couldn’t stand getting bad grades – I couldn’t stand it. ![]() I don’t know anybody who worked as hard as I did in high school. Yeah, I was a real grinder in high school. That’s interesting, because if you were a high school kid who got into Harvard, presumably you were very good at a lot of things. It was the only thing I ever felt like I had a talent for – reading books and talking about them. I looked at it, and I felt like I could see the parts moving, and I understood the structure, and I understood the talk about it. Dalloway, I thought, I can flog myself through chemistry, and I can probably understand 80% of it, but I felt like I understood how worked. Dalloway was the real turning point for me. ![]()
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