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Michael Chabon's likable first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, a lighthearted account of a young man growing up gay, was received with glad cries, and these still reverberated when his short story collection, A Model World, appeared. And then? Hmmm, let's see. The white whale's been done. Down the Mississippi on a raft? That too. Okay, lots of plots out there; maybe something about a dwarf in Germany who beats a drum...
...count in my last week's English 178x section yielded the following results: four ball-pointers, seven roller-ball-users and a lone pencil person. Hmmm. Is the roller-ball phenomenon a throwback from days of fountain pen prevalence? Perhaps proud owners cherish their Pilot Precises and their UniBall Deluxes for their decisive, permanent ink or for the little windows through which they can watch the ink go down and think, "boy, I sure write a lot!" The Harvard humanities notetaker comes to adore the flowing pages upon pages of intellectual-looking lecture notes...
...hyperbole. Asked about his decision earlier this season to sign with the 49ers for much less money than he would have got from other teams, Sanders said, "Forget finances. I'm knocking on the door of a dream. It was the greatest decision in the history of sports." Hmmm, let's see, there was the decision to integrate baseball, the decision to institute the forward pass . . . oh, never mind...
...dining hall entree could describe Bowden the best, it would be Turkey a la King. Hmmm. Turkey reminds me of Thanksgiving vacation...
...Hmmm. Mitt Romney? You never know...