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“I still think we should blow this fucker up.”

“Good. Work on it. In the meantime I’ll continue to carry a gun.”

Stephenson, Neal. The Big U: A Hilarious Satire of American College Life (p. 286). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

“Shit. Shit in a brown bag. Great fucking ghost of Rommel,” I said. “That thing is a tank.”

Indeed, a small tank was approaching our location. We retreated.

Stephenson, Neal. The Big U: A Hilarious Satire of American College Life (p. 258). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

“You really think universities should be garbage dumps for the worst by-products of civilization?” asked Hyacinth.

Stephenson, Neal. The Big U: A Hilarious Satire of American College Life (p. 237). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

"Some accused him of using the accident as an excuse to act like a madman, but no one doubted that he was pissed off."

Stephenson, Neal. The Big U: A Hilarious Satire of American College Life (p. 200). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

He looked at her in the same way he had been staring at the forest. “Wow,” he said, “I think I get it.”

“Don’t go overboard on this,” she said, “but how would you like to attend something dreadful called Fantasy Island Nite?”

Stephenson, Neal. The Big U: A Hilarious Satire of American College Life (p. 142). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

"By the time she made it back to her room she had adjusted to the Plex again, and taught herself to see and hear as little of it as possible."

Stephenson, Neal. The Big U: A Hilarious Satire of American College Life (p. 122). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

“You can make it as hard as you want, as hard as you can, but I’m going to be the cleverest bastard this place has ever seen! I can make idiots of you all, damn it!”

Stephenson, Neal. The Big U: A Hilarious Satire of American College Life (p. 85). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

"Nothing at all made sense until he explained the Worm to me, and the story of Paul Bennett."

Stephenson, Neal. The Big U: A Hilarious Satire of American College Life (p. 40). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

"What you are about to read is not an aberration: it can happen in your local university too. The Big U, simply, was a few years ahead of the rest."

Stephenson, Neal. The Big U: A Hilarious Satire of American College Life (p. 18). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.