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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
What surprised me was the amount of minute detail he poured out about his life. The kid had to have been keeping some sort of constant diary or journal as he grew up. I can't believe he just rattled all this stuff off from the top of his head.
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I wondered the same thing. He was a journal writer, he mentions a journal at some point in the manifesto and police took a handwritten journal from his apartment or his mother's home I read.
People who write are the types who observe more than participate and commit things to memory or journals, it's part of being the type of person who becomes a writer rather than say a photographer or doctor. They also embellish their memories, and I bet he did a fair amount of it in that manifesto.
It took me an evening and then a couple hours the next day to read it, it's 110,000 words, about the same length as the average thriller novel, 300 pages or so.