Being Neurotic Seemed To Be A Kind

People Have Been Modeling Their Lives After Films For Years, But The Medium Is Somehow Unsuited To Moral Lessons, Cautionary Tales Or Polemics Of Any Kind.

A Favorite Strategy Was The Paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed Immediately By Wrong. This Linear Invitation To A Mugging Was Considered A Strategy Of Wit.

The Style Of Flirtation Specific To Classrooms Was Of Service To The Students All Their Lives.

Being Neurotic Seemed To Be A Kind Of Wild Card, An All-purpose Explanation.

Hardly Anyone About Whom I Deeply Care At All Resembles Anyone Else I Have Ever Met, Or Heard Of, Or Read About In Literature.