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2 hours agoA Book I Wish I'd Read at 22
Reading broadly during early adulthood helps shape lifelong direction through inspiration from writers who model possibilities rather than instructing by edict.
Brontë portrayed these landscapes as being bleak, unforgiving, and tempestuous—and at many times of year they are, but they are also staggeringly beautiful and have given birth to some of the United Kingdom's greatest 20th-century artists and sculptors.
San Francisco's status as the epicenter of the '60s countercultural movement is well-documented, but it was not limited to just the city itself. Its elements spread into nearby cities like Berkeley, Oakland, Fairfax all of Marin County, really and even outside the Bay Area to places like Monterey and Big Sur. As gonzo journalist Hunter S.Thompson once wrote in his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: There was madness in any direction, at any hour.