Young Slytherin
Oct. 16th, 2002 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantI was fed up with books, which I still continued to gulp down with indiscriminate voracity, and searched for another key to the highest truths: there must be a key, and I was certain that, owing to some monstrous conspiracy to my detriment and the world's, I would not get it in school. In school they loaded me with tons of notions which I diligently digested, but which did not warm the blood in my veins. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: "I will understand this, too, I will understand everything, but not the way they want me to. I will find a shortcut, I will make a lock-pick, I will push open the doors."
Ambitious; intelligent but not quite scholarly; arrogant ... Marauder-era Snape?
(The quote is from "Hydrogen," a chapter of Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, which is a perfectly astonishing book.)
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Date: 10/17/02 01:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/17/02 05:43 pm (UTC)And of course always happy to team up with Alan Rickman to do anything whatsoever ...
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