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[Mario] took citizens' kindness and cruelty the same way, with a kind of extra-inclined half-bow that mocked his own canted posture without pity or cringe."
p. 316
Loved this section on Mario. A very sweet soul.

Yeah, making progress. Oh, hey, what's that? Footnotes 110? An 18 page footnote you say? Sweet. Also, technically, as the notes are part of the book, the whole goes to 1079, and I have read 21 pages of notes . . . I am actually on p. 331.

I actually said, "The nearest library with a cutting-edge professional grief- and trauma-therapy section, and step on it.

CHRONOLOGY OF ORGANIZATION OF NORTH AMERICAN NATION'S REVENUE-ENHANCING SUBSIDIZED TIME (tm), BY YEAR . . .

P. 223 achieved and momentum increasing . . . woo!

If you are an adolescent, here is the trick to being neither quite a nerd nor quite a jock: be no one.
It is easier than you think.
p.175

Regarded with the objectivity of hindsight, the illusion appears arational, almost literally fantastic: it would be like being able both to lie and to trust other people at the same time.-P. 146

'Urine trouble? Urine luck!'