Pretending to live a life as an intellectual

I spent a day at Barnes and Nobles the other day and pretended to be an intellectual. Continuing with that theme as soon as I walked in I headed over to the poetry section because I quite enjoy poetry but I also really just was pretending to play the part of a bookstore drama. I chose to read Dante's Inferno because I had done a project on him where I was to pretend to write a letter as the famous Italian poet to the Medici family. I perhaps got a teensy bit too immersed into the role which led me to feel very embarrassed after I submitted it. Nonetheless I received a... decent grade (surprisingly) and I became aware of this interesting figure. Anyways I don't understand Italian but there was a translation and I enjoyed the first... 2 pages of it before I lost interest. However, still trying to play the part of a unique, intellectual individual, I forced myself to continue and it was quite amusing. Eventually I searched for the psychology section as the drama It's Okay to Not Be Okay re-sparked my old interest in mental disorders and how we work. Unfortunately I couldn't find it but I did find a book about the Highclere Castle, the castle where Downton Abbey was shot. I had a terrible obsession with the series in elementary school which led to my dreadful practice of my supposed "British accent". I apologize to the UK for all the Americans in the US that butcher their accent. Anyways the psychology book I chose was simple and had visuals, meeting my level. It was very interesting, the cover itself contained facts that really made me rethink my entire short life. Apparently, the average person only remembers 20% of what they have read, 20% of CEOs are psychopaths, and the use of anti-depressants has increased 400% since 1988. Of course these facts can be inaccurate, after all, the average person only remembers 20% of what they read (I think).