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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here at FM, eyes grow moist upon recalling that fateful weekend in April of years past, when we ourselves first tasted the sweet fruit of the veritas vine. Or was it the wine made from the fermented fruit? Ah, yes, the joys of pre-frosh weekend. We recall the Scarlet Folders (so shameful!, the endless self-introductions, the relentless lines at the Union, the roving packs of frustrated party-seekers, the foamy keg in Matthews, the Greys party's recycling bin filled with vodka and Kool-Aid...and that's all we remember...
...Ah, the taste. I remember an alcohol counselor coming to my eighth-grade social studies class and talking about the evils of those-OH groups. He couldn't believe that anyone enjoyed alcohol--especially Scotch--since it all tasted so horrible. Even at the tender age of 13, I silently begged to differ...
...huge plant--we believe in a vain attempt to purify the clove- and tar-laden air. Although a sign explains that in the future smoking may have to be restricted due to the complete lack of ventilation, Liberty currently maintains smoking and nonsmoking sections. Suggested, of course, not enforced. Ah, the liberty...
What follows is a novel only in the sense that it has a lot of pages not devoted to phone numbers. There is no plot and certainly nothing that could be called character development. Ah, but character disintegration, character vaporized and sucked away by the office air conditioning, that's another matter. Bronson describes a sales floor where twitchy, sweating wretches are flogged back to their cubicles by a demented sales manager when they sprint for the rest rooms. They pluck random, cooked statistics from their Quotrons, bark hopeless lies into speed-dial phones, fill impossible quotas by selling federal...
...days we used to call him The Village Clown The Village Idiot Ah, what great sport ... Until something goes wrong...