![]() ![]() "I suspect you'll have no choice but to go down in history. And thus, when you're ultimately set loose upon the world." He shrugged, his smile lazy as an old dog. For them, you will be a speck somewhere above the horizon. Special Topics In Calamity Physics wears its cleverness too openly, but its about clever people, and the heart-hardening disillusionment that occurs when our heroes reveal themselves as. When a teacher asks the class to interpret Paradise Lost, no one will be able to grab your coattails, sweet, for you will be flying far, far out in front of them all. You'll know the man sitting on an apple crate outside a gas station in Cheerless, Texas, who lost his legs in Vietnam, the woman in the tollboth outside Dismal, Delaware, in possession of six children, a husband with black lung but no teeth. After your travels, you'll know Maple Street, sure, but also wilderness and ruins, carnivals and the moon. ![]() Every Betsy sitting next to you in a classroom will only know Maple Street on which sits her boxy white house, inside of which whimper her boxy white parents. To be stupid is to die.' And so we shall live. Millet wrote in Ages of Exploration: 'To be still is to be stupid. Think of The Motorcycle Diaries, or what Montrose St. ![]() “Dad on Child-rearing: "There's no education superior to travel. Marisha Pessls debut mystery novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006) won the first Center for Fictions First Novel Prize in 2006 and made the New. ![]()
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