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  1. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    It is adorable and healthily childlike secretly to believe in fairy tales, but the instant one articulates such viewpoints to other people, one goes from darling to dumbo, from childlike to chillingly out of touch with reality," wrote Albert Pooley in The Imperial Consort of the Dairy Queen {1981, p. 233}.
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  2. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    Mögest du für die Wahrheit kämpfen -, für deine eigene Wahrheit, nicht für die Wahrheit anderer
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  3. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    When your child is seized by an idea with the zeal of a fundamentalist Bible salesman from Indiana, stand in his or her way at your own risk.
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  4. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    She looked at me as if I were a snag in tights.
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  5. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    Landlocked Switzerland: They're Nice and Neutral Only Because They're Tiny
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  6. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    What I mean is, a professor is the only person on earth with the power to put a veritable frame around life- not the whole thing, God no- simply a fragment of it, a small wedge. He organizes the unorganizable. Nimbly partitions it into modern and postmodern, renaissance, baroque, primitivism, imperialism and so on. Splice that up with Research Papers, Vacation, Midterms. All that order- simply divine. The symmetry of a semester course. Consider the words themselves: the seminar, the tutorial, the advanced whatever workshop accessible only to seniors, to graduate fellows, to doctoral candidates, the practicum- what a marvelous word: practicum! You think me crazy. Consider a Kandinsky. Utterly muddled, put a frame around it, voilà - looks rather quaint above the fireplace. And so it is with the curriculum. That celestial, sweet set of instructions, culminating in the scary wonder of the Final Exam. And what is the Final Exam? A test of one's deepest understanding of giant concepts.
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  7. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    . . .perhaps she figured I was already a highly forgiving person, that I did my best to treat shortcomings like hobos I'd found dozing on my porch: take them in and maybe they'll work for you."
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  8. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until I became that person. Or he became me.' In the end, a man turns into what he thinks he is, however large or small.
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  9. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    Connie Madison Parker, age 36, on Merchandise: "You got to put yourgoods on display, babe. Otherwise, not only will the boys ignore you but-an'trust me on this, my sister's flat as you-we're talkin' the Great Plains of East Texas - no landmarks - one day you'll look down and have no wares at all.What'll you do then?
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  10. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    The trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably.
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  11. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    Oh? Now tell me your gut reaction to the following words. Colonial.Dellahay. Wood. Patio. Five Pieces. Sun resistant, wind resistant, JudgmentDay resistant. Amazing value at just $299. And consider the Dellahay mottoneatly inscribed on their cute little tags: 'Patio furniture isn't furniture. It's astate of mind.' " Dad smiled, putting his arm around me as he pushed megently toward Garden. "I'll give you ten thousand dollars if you can tell mewhat that means.
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  12. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's stillbanging Charles after all these years -""Like a screen in a tornado. Sure.
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