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...until the month of March, the Crimson was plagued with inconsistency. The team would play well and take a lead but then would invariably lose its concentration and watch a victory slip away...
Pulp drags you along in its aimless, stream-of-conscious storytelling, a slip-shod version of Catcher in the Rye. Its central character, Jimi Banks, graduates from college and, overburdened with a lost love and a friend's suicide, turns himself into a cheap-thrill escape artist. He seeks to lose himself in foreign countries, foreign liquor, hash and lusting after women...
...more machismo or self-esteem would give a self-congratulatory "scored one" story. Jimi sees himself as he is--weak-willed and groveling for affection. His reaction to contracting the herpes virus is oddly endearing: "It ain't AIDS," he says, "but it still sucks! An Eternal Scar. One slip and young lust jumps out a window...
Traction. That's the word on the streets these days, for those planning to walk on them. FM recommends cleats. Just carry a pair of slippers in your backpack, and slip them on right before class. You'll see us doing it. You won't be alone...
Smart lad, to slip betimes away...