Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I sometimes catch myself fantasising about knowing absolutely everything – but only with the object of being able to win every argument and never get caught out.
When it comes to becoming conscious of the world, politically engaged, etc. I'm afraid to say the first motive that springs to mind is that I would be Mr Clever Clogs.
(And sure I fantasise about the other stuff like being sexually irresistible, immortal and imperturbable.)
The sometime impurity of "intellectual" pursuits – reading literary critics you often feel that what they're really into is telling people they're wrong...
When it comes to becoming conscious of the world, politically engaged, etc. I'm afraid to say the first motive that springs to mind is that I would be Mr Clever Clogs.
(And sure I fantasise about the other stuff like being sexually irresistible, immortal and imperturbable.)
The sometime impurity of "intellectual" pursuits – reading literary critics you often feel that what they're really into is telling people they're wrong...