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...prevalence— of mental illness. Mental illness is not something that other people have; according to the NIMH, one in four adults will suffer from one or more mental illnesses in his lifetime, and one in seven will suffer from one or more severe illness. Before referring in jest to “those voices in your head,” keep in mind that schizophrenia destroys lives, and that last year UHS diagnosed five Harvard students with the disease. In other words, if your joking hides real symptoms of psychosis, keep two things in mind: the terror that...
...third-grade persuasive essay.” Sundquist, at ease finally in boxers and a white T-shirt, does what he can to placate his flustered suitemate. But in reality he is not overly concerned. For one, Murrell’s outburst appears to be half in jest. And that notwithstanding, the vice president has acquired enough perspective in the last few years that he’s not inclined to blow political issues out of proportion. Sundquist’s first months at Harvard came with a sizeable dose of contingency, as his mother’s bout with...
Indeed, with me voluntarily terrified in goal, Donato would have a conveniently cloaked chance at revenge. I’ve written my fair share about him over the past three years—all in jest, I swear—but because he is an administrator, a responsible adult representing a hallowed institution, he has had to grin and take...
...malleable. Its boundaries shift so often that groups once categorically relegated to non-white status, groups highly racialized—like the Irish, the Italians, the Germans—are now firmly in the white camp. I’ll still poke fun at it, just as I jest about my father’s English-language faux pas. But her whiteness, or lack of it, is really non-negotiable. It’s whatever her heart and mind tell her, and that’s the way racial ascription should be: bottom up, not top down. I love...
...length, well, Infinite Jest is about the way we fill up our loneliness with obsessions--notably tennis and movies--and addictions--notably drugs--and how those obsessions and addictions leave us only lonelier still. Those 1,079 discursive, hilarious, occasionally infuriating pages stand as the output of a writer's compulsion to communicate, although they can be addictive for readers as well. It's as if Wallace were saying, Listen: it would take a thousand pages to tell you what I mean, to fill the infinite void between you and me--and even then, it wouldn't be enough...