Word: uselessness
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...more he detests it. He attends Anna's public reading at the institute, hoping her stuff will sound better than it looks on the page. As he listens, he finds himself in tears: "Different from other work of hers -- yes! Bad in a new way! Worse than before! Hopeless! Useless! What on earth was to be done...
...must be tough to be Dan Shaughnessy, knowing that all the training and hard work you have put in over the years to become one of the best baseball writers in America is useless...
...spawning streams choked with silt. Some of this is healthy second growth (redwoods reach marketable size in 50 to 80 years), but the recently logged areas look as if they had been fought over by an armored division. This is a tree farm, not a forest; viable commercially but useless to creatures who had lived here. Congressman Hamburg wants the government to buy the combined 44,000-acre tract, old growth and new, from Pacific Lumber...
...months to paraplegia, six months to quadriplegia, six months to death." He endured multiple surgeries, steroids that distorted his mind and body, torturous physical therapy that proved unavailing, massive leaks of spinal fluid and altogether understandable despair. When the battle was over, when the addictive pain-killers and useless back braces and countless other palliatives were tossed aside, he was paralyzed and in perpetual pain. The cancer seems dormant now, but the doctors make no promises. Yet Price insists that in all but the worst few months "mine has been a happy life...
...very little informal discussion outside the narrow circles of workshop students and magazine staffs." Let Dartboard translate: although my friends and I have managed to hijack the Advocate and spread our mediocre juvenilia around campus, on one writes about us. Boo hoo. Up until now, we considered it useless to comment on an issue about which the campus feels roughly unanimous. And as for Mr. Canner's last point, it all depends on whether one's definition of "informal discussion" includes eye-rolling and derisive snickering...