Iluta Abolina’s Reviews > The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions > Status Update
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"it was easier to be brilliant than smart, and easier to be smart than competent. ..Nothing was more terrifying than mental incompetence at a time when the quantifiable mind was replacing the immortal soul as the unit of individual worth.
— Aug 31, 2026 07:47AM
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Iluta Abolina
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"He wanted to be Fitzgerald and Gatsby both, the dreamer and the dream. Didn’t we all?..The brain is the body, and the body lives in the present[-]all there is ..castles in the air were fine places to live—all you had to do was put foundations under them—but..how much harder it was to build down than up[!]..mental illness[-]the indispensable elixir of literary theory[:]the vermouth, the gin, the olive, and the glass.
— Aug 20, 2026 07:13AM