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Overheard today at LASGS: “Well, don’t they take like six months to a year to grow?” (in reference to Shakespeare’s first child being born 5 months post-matrimony) “Can’t babies hold their breath longer, ’cause you know they’re like floating in water in the womb?”  “No, man, they have a breathing tube.” (amidst a conversation on [...]

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All snails are hermaphrodites… Although all snails can both produce sperm and lay eggs, they must still mate before reproduction can take place. Mating takes place on warm, damp summer nights. The two individuals rear up and press their undersides together before releasing sperm into one another. After mating is completed, the snails lay their [...]

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My dear Wormwood, You mention in your letter that your patient brought up the upcoming election over dinner.  You were pleased because he had alienated several colleagues and said snide remarks about the leadership of the country.  You seem to be under the misguided assumption that dinner conversation is innocuous.  On the contrary, banishing substantive [...]

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London (from Martin Eden), on the young writer vs. editors: “He began to doubt that editors were real men.  They seemed cogs in a machine.  … It was like the slot machines wherein one dropped pennies, and with a metallic whirl of machinery had delivered to him a stick of chewing gum or a tablet [...]

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August 25, 2010 4:00 A.M. God and Woman at Harvard A 2010 summa cum laude heads to a convent. Don’t tell Mary Anne Marks the Catholic Church is an oppressive, misogynistic disaster. She knows better. And she’s got a Harvard degree, too. Miss Marks, a native of Queens, N.Y., graduated from Harvard University this past [...]

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake.  But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.  When we emerge, perhaps we will realize that we have been dreaming with our eyes open, and that the [...]

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“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” George Washington Carver

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The Writing Style of “Twilight”: We Kick Off The ‘I Will If You Will’ Book Club by Linda Holmes, NPR ……… Marc: Right. And as for the little mocking I did there of Meyer’s previously-discussed tendency to pick the bluntest, least-interesting analogy, allow me to quote the following, from page 190: “I quickly rubbed my [...]

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(of nights & jazz) “…and the girls have their mouths half opened and turn themselves over to delightful feat and the night, while a trumpet comes on to possess them in the name of all men, taking them with a single hot phrase that drops them like a cut flower into the arms of their [...]

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“You know what I really hate most about school?” “What?” “P.E. comes right before lunch.  I’m starving at P.E.– then I’m too sweaty and tired to eat lunch.  I’m hungry all freaking day!” (Conversation between two Virgil junior highers crossing Vermont)

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