![]() In the autumn of 1949, he was conscripted into the Royal Air Force but soon found himself clashing with authority, eventually feigning homosexuality in order to be dismissed. He started to write stories, plays, and essays in earnest – a long "sequel" to Man and Superman made him consider himself to be 'Shaw's natural successor.' After two unfulfilling jobs – one as a laboratory assistant at his old school – he drifted into the Civil Service, but found little to occupy his time. His discovery of George Bernard Shaw's work, particularly Man and Superman, was a landmark. ![]() But by the time he left school at sixteen, his interests were already switching to literature. By the age of 14 he had compiled a multi-volume work of essays covering many aspects of science entitled A Manual of General Science. ![]() At the age of eleven he attended Gateway Secondary Technical School, where his interest in science began to blossom. Wilson was born on 26 June 1931 in Leicester, the first child of Arthur and Annetta Wilson. Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or " phenomenological existentialism", and maintained his life work was "that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism". ![]() He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred books. ![]() Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English writer and novelist. ![]()
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I am not an avatar, a set of preferences, or some smooth cognitive force I'm lumpy and porous, I'm an animal." ![]() "Your eyes reading this text, your hands, your breath, the time of day, the place where you are reading this-these things are real. " This is real," writes Jenny Odell in How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Melville House). ![]() |