Love letters to literature

Love letters to literature

Letters I Never Sent

How to be disgustingly educated

A chaotic guide to becoming the most interesting person in the room

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Thee Book Club
Aug 17, 2025
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Letters I never sent (No.9)

Hello my love,

There’s a kind of person who’s so well-read, so frighteningly articulate, so mentally juicy that you want to both date them and punch them in the throat.

You know the type.

They quote Baldwin mid-conversation.

They listen to podcasts at 1.5x speed while annotating a book.

They drop phrases like “epistemic frameworks” and somehow make it work.

This is your guide to becoming that person. Not for clout. Not for Instagram aesthetics. But for the sheer, indecent pleasure of being disgustingly educated.

Let’s begin.

1. Treat Curiosity Like a Religion

Ask questions. Relentlessly.

Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?

Why did the Roman Empire fall (again)?

Why is Taylor Swift’s marketing team so terrifyingly good?

The disgustingly educated are not “know-it-alls.” They’re “want-to-know-it-alls.” They collect questions like souvenirs and chase answers like lovers. Google should be tired of you.

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