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...been prepared in anticipation of The Stable Boy’s time on Earth? What prophet could have imagined such a mixing of beauty and brutality? Roxanna would give herself to Frederick. He was versifying aloud and completely without sense—”Young men will do??t if they come to’t. By Cock, they are to blame!”—there was no time. It would have to be now. Her thoughts dissolved as she rose from the ground. She heard song wafting through the trees...
When Cambridge residents complain about the past eight years of George W. Bush in Peter M. Wilson’s presence—and they often do??he simply smiles and nods his head...
...last time you said a word like “Wow!” out loud and in total astonishment? Children live in a sense of wonder all the time, but as we grow older we learn saying loud wow’s is not a cool thing to do??it’s childish, etc. Part of the delight of books or movies, music and painting is on first encountering something terrific to our sensibilities, the wow returns. I think people like my books because they work towards reawakening that sense of unbridled wonder we once felt...
...particularly Harvard students, many of whom prioritized studying over dating in high school—become sexually active for the first time. Freshmen arrive on campus, attend Sex Signals (which is geared toward reducing sexual violence by promoting communication), and are thoroughly taught “what not to do?? as regards sex. But when it comes to what students should be doing in order to make their sex lives emotionally and physically healthy, the College doesn’t say enough. That freshmen are educated about sexual health in a nonthreatening, non-stigmatizing way is essential. While...
...that the girl is a psycho. But when placed in her life’s context—that she was a girl who spends her life missing a former flame who once told her, “Don’t watch what you think, watch what you do??—one can understand the crude thoughts as her way of willing him back to her. That craziness also creates some of the most enjoyable parts of the book, as when Olive decides to teach a lesson to her daughter-in-law—whom...