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...obsessiveness with which the old man pursues this perverse relationship, recounted in flashbacks after the son is arrested on suspicion of murdering him, is horrific. This is especially so since the lad is apparently everything his father is not--clean-cut, eager to please, lovable. But therein lies the story's cunning. For the father recognizes in his son qualities that they share. The son is wily, a demon for work, and not comfortable or clever with women, as he proves by sadly fumbling an office romance as he rises from clerk to partner in a law firm...
...therein lies its beauty. You can learn a lot from using it, but it's not a place made exclusively for learning. You can conduct business on it, but it can't guarantee security. Nebulous and self-sufficient, the Internet exists because people want it to exist--not because it can reform education or make life easier...
...progress. As a conscientious objector to national policy, I refused to set my clock one hour ahead. Instead, I set my watch 53 minutes ahead, my clock 47 minutes ahead, and my computer's clock 37 minutes ahead. You see, I had already set my clocks ahead. And therein lies my problem...
...therein lies the smoldering secret conflict of Junior Parents' Weekend, one that during Freshman Parents' Weekend barely lit a spark. Many of us are primarily concerned with our academics and extracurriculars, thinking of our social lives as outlets for fun and relaxation. Many of our parents, on the other hand, have a different agenda. More often than not, they are secretly working on the unspoken but ill-concealed project of marrying us off. This project heightens during graduate school and the years following, but for many parents, junior year is when the hint of the notion first appears...
...urbanites could come to bathe in a forgotten innocence--symbolized by the cool Tokyo dilettante who takes up with a local geisha. At the book's haunting end, the man is returning to his wife in Tokyo, suitably refreshed, and the country girl, heartbroken, is left with only memories. Therein lies the promise, and the danger, of what promise to be splendid Games...