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Recollecting on the part of Sara was also somewhat animal-focused, though the manner was slightly different...
...farewell, New England. And before we part ways I must ask of you two small favors. First, please secede in a non-violent manner, after I graduate. And second—since you are so smart—please find a way to take New Jersey with...
...room’s couch. Needless to say, the Eliotites did not appreciate this gesture of intimacy and friendship…Aux armes, artistes! After being refused entry to a small soiree at the Signet Friday night, two ne’er-do-wells registered their disappointment in a manner befitting Harvard’s refined society of arts and letters: a brick through the kitchen window. (Perhaps a sly, if tactless, F.O. Matthiessen reference?) Fortunately, wanna-be actors and playwrights aren’t exactly the strongest group, and the brick didn’t cause any significant damage?...
...prefaced with affectionate disclaimers—My new doctor’s great, or, I’m sure they’re not all bad. Nevertheless, UHS medical staff has become famous to many for approaching sexually active college students with moralistic verse and an intensely ugly bedside manner...
...that characters are never completely absolved of blame or suspicion. The reader is presented with nothing concrete, nothing completely justified, yet all validated at the same time; the characters are simultaneously good, bad, loving, and threatening. All is revealed (albeit slowly and sometimes in a contrived way) in a manner that suits the novel, a mystery concerned with the way in which humans turn to the supernatural to deal with notions of identity and an inheritance of our past. Each of the characters is presented, his or her guilt called into question, and then never quite absolved. The heart...