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Just as I was starting breakfast, there had been a loud clap which in retrospect was the beginning of a torrential downpour. Starting out late for section and my mind filled with the day's tasks, I somehow didn't notice the amount of water on the ground or, for that matter, the rain rapidly soaking my fleece...
...Adams House I knew I was in trouble. I could tell I needed a slicker, an umbrella, something and my traditional insurance--raingear in my backpack--had somehow been forgotten. The rain dripping down off my glasses and running in streams on my cheek, I gauged the remaining path and hoped for the best...
...worked up about or dissatisfied with? Well, precisely that: stability. As Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden mentions in Fight Club, thirty-somethings are the "middle children of history:" forgotten in the shadow of those who come before and after them. Yuppies are expected to make it through somehow, become an accountant, and show up for Thanksgiving with a crock-pot or two of mashed potatoes as bland and frothy as their own lives. Yuppies have had no Great War or Great Depression in their time; their Great Depression is, as Durden says, "their entire lives." A yuppie's existential...
...fans hum overhead. Two burly Boston cops sit in the booth behind ours, shouting at the short order cook in a Boston accent worthy of a Jordan's Furniture commercial. Their noise does not drown out the precise, thoughtful speech and South African accent of Mr. Morris, however, and somehow the two tables, worlds apart, settle into an even coexistence. The short order cook begins to sing the theme song of the brady bunch over the strains of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" coming from the juke box, as I ask my first question...
...first exercise in definitional rigor I would invite Lee to undertake is that between "irony" and "cynicism." In referring to "students who incessantly ask questions in lecture" who are wrongly labelled as "brown-nosers," Lee is talking about cynicism, not irony. Somehow Lee's commentary does not make me fear the breakdown of commitment in America, but the breakdown of the ability to think rigorously at one of America's universities...