Word: nessness
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...even manage a few laughs here and there, a few moments of happy oblivion. Routine is what we use to keep our minds from overtaking us. Forget talk—it trivializes. Forget silence—it magnifies. Only routine—the calmness of physical denial, the okay-ness of everyday motions—reclaims for me the repetition that is normality...
...decades they have come to Loch Ness, camera-toting tourists and scientists with high-tech submersibles, all desperate for a glimpse of the world's most famous monster. Italian geologist Luigi Piccardi says they will never find Nessie, because she's an earthquake. He claims seismic activity in the Great Glen Fault, directly under the Scottish lake, coincides with the sightings, groaning noises and water-surface disturbances attributed to Scotland's favorite beast. Tell that to the tourist bureau...
...turned out, all that cusp-ness provided a useful foretaste of the 90s and early 00s, which have been in so many ways (technologically, economically, culturally) a time of extreme flux. At an impressionable age we became accustomed to being both one thing and its seeming opposite (analog and digital, bohemian and bourgeois, old and youngish), which was—I think—a good thing...
...turned out, all that cusp-ness provided a useful foretaste of the 90s and early 00s, which have been in so many ways (technologically, economically, culturally) a time of extreme flux. At an impressionable age we became accustomed to being both one thing and its seeming opposite (analog and digital, bohemian and bourgeois, old and youngish), which was—I think—a good thing...
...that’s the future, and while the future has come to California, it hasn’t yet made it to Harvard. The recent defense of self-segregation at Harvard has centered on minority-ness. The argument is either 1) I didn’t have any (fill in the blank) friends back home, so I want to get to know other people like me now, or 2) As a minority on this campus I feel more comfortable around others of similar backgrounds...