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...final was a mirror image of Harvard’s game last week, when the Crimson lost to Dartmouth by a score...
...discarded and forgotten. What remains is a rich, wise, absorbing and irresistible novel. Wolfe does things with words--exhilarating, intoxicating, impossible things--that no other writer can do. Take this example, from the second page of the book, in which frat boy Hoyt stares at himself in the mirror, dead drunk: "A gale was blowing in his head. He liked it. He bared his teeth. He had never seen them quite this way before. So even! So white! They vibrated from perfection. And his square jaw ... that chin with the perfect cleft in it ... his thick, thatchy light brown hair...
...There was a Bush air freshener I saw in some novelty store that you could hang on your [car] mirror and it had a foul smell, which was obviously the joke--—the idea that the President’s policies stunk and if you hung this up, you would be reminded of his terrible policies...
...that I found it rather ironic that he calls Princeton “haughty” and “oozing with pretension.” Perhaps if McGinn wiped the clam chowder out of his eyes, he might have realized he was simply looking in the mirror...
...it’s a fake mirror, then what are you doing?” he asks. “What’s wrong with reality...