{"id":"01KG07DPXABXNXKTTC2S8017T7","cid":"bafkreibehm33vtupzwb6euvu2alqb6z5zyliqjdxaop5mwrfcywfveapp4","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":4773,"extracted_at":"2026-01-27T17:18:35.106Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 6","source_file":"01KFYTG9MG93RTB6YAW34V48XG","start_line":4726,"text":" 4525\tYou could tell he wasn't tired at all, though. He was pretty oiled up, for one thing.\n 4526\t\"I think that one of these days,\" he said, \"you're going to have to find out where you want\n 4527\tto go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose\n 4528\ta minute. Not you.\"\n 4529\tI nodded, because he was looking right at me and all, but I wasn't too sure what he\n 4530\twas talking about. I was pretty sure I knew, but I wasn't too positive at the time. I was too\n 4531\tdamn tired.\n\n\n 4532\t\"And I hate to tell you,\" he said, \"but I think that once you have a fair idea where\n 4533\tyou want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school. You'll have to. You're\n 4534\ta student--whether the idea appeals to you or not. You're in love with knowledge. And I\n 4535\tthink you'll find, once you get past all the Mr. Vineses and their Oral Comp--\"\n 4536\t\"Mr. Vinsons,\" I said. He meant all the Mr. Vinsons, not all the Mr. Vineses. I\n 4537\tshouldn't have interrupted him, though.\n 4538\t\"All right--the Mr. Vinsons. Once you get past all the Mr. Vinsons, you're going\n 4539\tto start getting closer and closer--that is, if you want to, and if you look for it and wait for\n 4540\tit--to the kind of information that will be very, very dear to your heart. Among other\n 4541\tthings, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened\n 4542\tand even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be\n 4543\texcited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and\n 4544\tspiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.\n 4545\tYou'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer,\n 4546\tsomeone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it\n 4547\tisn't education. It's history. It's poetry.\" He stopped and took a big drink out of his\n 4548\thighball. Then he started again. Boy, he was really hot. I was glad I didn't try to stop him\n 4549\tor anything. \"I'm not trying to tell you,\" he said, \"that only educated and scholarly men\n 4550\tare able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so. But I do say that\n 4551\teducated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which,\n 4552\tunfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind\n 4553\tthem than men do who are merely brilliant and creative. They tend to express themselves\n 4554\tmore clearly, and they usually have a passion for following their thoughts through to the\n 4555\tend. And--most important--nine times out of ten they have more humility than the\n 4556\tunscholarly thinker. Do you follow me at all?\"\n 4557\t\"Yes, sir.\"\n 4558\tHe didn't say anything again for quite a while. I don't know if you've ever done it,\n 4559\tbut it's sort of hard to sit around waiting for somebody to say something when they're\n 4560\tthinking and all. It really is. I kept trying not to yawn. It wasn't that I was bored or\n 4561\tanything--I wasn't--but I was so damn sleepy all of a sudden.\n 4562\t\"Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it\n 4563\tany considerable distance, it'll begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What\n 4564\tit'll fit and, maybe, what it won't. After a while, you'll have an idea what kind of thoughts\n 4565\tyour particular size mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an\n 4566\textraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that don't suit you, aren't becoming to you.\n 4567\tYou'll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.\"\n 4568\tThen, all of a sudden, I yawned. What a rude bastard, but I couldn't help it!\n 4569\tMr. Antolini just laughed, though. \"C'mon,\" he said, and got up. \"We'll fix up the\n 4570\tcouch for you.\"","title":"Chunk 6"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG0725KRV1Y3Q27GR0RPHVES","peer_label":"24","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-27T17:18:35.674Z","ts":"2026-01-27T17:18:35.674Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}