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Maybe it was just a little misunderstanding, a thing that happens from time to time in every family. Maybe Al Gore really had someplace better to be at the moment Bill Clinton arrived on the South Lawn last Monday morning to announce that the gods had bestowed an extra trillion...
And that translates into a politics of bounty, the priorities of which the President wants to be the first to define. The new money, he said, would first be used to save Social Security by permitting Social Security taxes to be allocated "for Social Security, period," rather than being needed...
The one? You know, the One--the one that everyone meets at college; the One who the forces of love and the lords of the universe have connected you to and who you will inevitably ride off into the sunset with and live happily ever after with and all that...
You too will await the verdict of housing lottery gods, maybe spending that fateful night curled up in your future roommates' room, on an odd-smelling couch that has been who-knows-where.
I looked for answers among the novels and poems I have read and discussed over the past few years; works filled with angst-ridden protagonists of privileged education, disillusioned but well-meaning idealists in search of greater Truth and Beauty. Were we like Quentin Compson, confused, disenchanted rowers ultimately propelled...