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When you've been walking on water most of your life--when, since you reached adulthood, America has mostly been at peace, the economy has mostly been strong, and you've been part of a group large enough to call the cultural shots--harsh reality makes for a cold shower...
...ones starting with "Recently I've been thinking..." and "Over the past four years...." The dissertations on the ghostly Harvard advising system. The irreverent references to General Wong's chicken and urinating on John Harvard. Even the open-letter format, which I had come up with in the shower a few days before, was taken last year...
That would be very emotionally mature. Me? Next time I speak to my mother, I will mention the nonskid daisies I bought for my shower...
Humans said to their PDAs, "Heat my house, for I am on my way home. Alert me when the Williams and the Sonoma mark down by a 40th portion the things that make the gluten strands. Why is my stock so low? Get my broker out of the shower, or the flushing place, and tell him that I am wroth!" Or, "I am fatigued from the going-out of the caffeine. Lead me to the temple of Starbuck." And they would guide cars there. And it was amazing...
Whisked off to an Edenic island by improbable circumstances, his abandoned egg hatches in the midst of a lemur band--grumpy papa, adoring mom, frisky siblings. His idyllic upbringing is interrupted by a meteor shower--prefiguring the extinction of the species perhaps 150,000 years later--that brings Aladar and his pals back to a barren mainland and the lad's struggle to assert the values of a new masculine style in a sere landscape where the dino herd is ruled by the cranky and politically incorrect Kron (Samuel E. Wright...