In A Dream It's Typical Not To

I Had Been Offered Fellowships To Enter As A Graduate Student At Either Harvard Or Princeton. But The Princeton Fellowship Was Somewhat More Generous, Since I Had Not Actually Won The Putnam Competition... Thus Princeton Became The Choice For My Graduate Study Location.

Though I Had Success In My Research Both When I Was Mad And When I Was Not, Eventually I Felt That My Work Would Be Better Respected If I Thought And Acted Like A 'normal' Person.

In A Dream It's Typical Not To Be Rational.

Classes Will Dull Your Mind, Destroy The Potential For Authentic Creativity.

Gradually I Began To Intellectually Reject Some Of The Delusionally Influenced Lines Of Thinking Which Had Been Characteristic Of My Orientation. This Began, Most Recognizably, With The Rejection Of Politically-oriented Thinking As Essentially A Hopeless Waste Of Intellectual Effort.