I have almost lived in the castle
vogue mental health, beta-blockers & SSRIs
‘Some of my best friends are characters inside books that never even existed. There’s some degree to which they actually exist in my mind … they exist and I have almost kind of conversations with them. It’s interesting to allow your brain to kind of play with ideas of the past, of the imagined and see it all as one.’ — computer scientist Lex Fridman on his Podcast … scroll down for more.
It’s been a hot new-plot minute. Last year I lived for a few days a week in a grand old seaside hotel that promptly became The Shining. Footsteps walked on wood along carpeted corridors at night. Music shined through my bedroom from the disused ballroom below. All was as it should be.