Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second race was much closer. Princeton finished in 6:11.4, followed by Harvard close behind at 6:14.9. MIT crossed the line with a laughable...
This time the score was a bit closer; Harvard...
According to O'Nan, the second person was originally just used for "bad guys...But people aren't bad. They're just very questioned. This guy is good. It brings the reader closer to him. He will sacrifice anything." O'Nan recognized the abruptness of his style but felt the overall intensity and involvement was worth confusing his reader for the first 30 pages. The reader's discomfort and anxiety concerning the epidemic are profoundly enhanced by the voice, by his lack of freedom of thought. His thoughts are Jake's, so just as Jake is helpless against the disease...
...feasible to meet them all, become a part of their little worlds and offer them entrance to ours. But it can be equally awe-inspiring to think how radically different the lives of others are from your own, how no experience is going to bring you any closer to their worldview...
...resisted, the voice of my editor still echoing in my ears. "Further on, further in," I mused, "to Somerville!" And not just any Somerville--not the one of Inman Square and summertime living--but something a little seedier and a hell of a lot closer to Tufts...