I read It when I was 12. Came away with a terrible awareness of mortality. Have been morbidly aware of everything's slow senescense since.
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I think the author wrote It partly as a restrospective, fondly replaying his faded youth. For me it was a dark tunnel to the future.
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The strangest part was, I completely forgot about the book for two decades, even as the stories and themes and certain sentences haunted me.
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And then--just after I turned 30--something clicked in me, and I had to reread it. Everything came rushing back. All the sentiments I'd felt
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when I had read it the first time. Crystal clear, after so many years totally lost to me. If you've read It, you see the perfect parallel.
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Anyway, the movie's probably going to fuck me up and not for horror reasons. The end.
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