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“I do not believe one can ever be familiar with pain. It is too deep.”

This is a book about pain and yet, there is no apt description of the pain of failing a test in Micro Economics by one question. Like seriously, I'm not even sad or disappointed, I'm just offended.

How was work last night? Well, in my notes, I have "problem with" written and no idea what I was referencing. That seems to sum it up.

Can I just cry my way into higher education? Or, at least, into passing Microeconomics?

“The derisory use of the word is similar to the phrase hocus-pocus, which is derived from “Hoc est corpus” (This is the body), which are the first words of the Mass.”

That's wild.

I know I'm getting desperate when I've switched from studying to Disney soundtracks to studying to superhero films soundtracks.

“The essence of the hypnotic state is only that the subject has agreed to hand over to the hypnotist the responsibility for deciding how they will react and what they will sense.”

This is a ridiculously creepy thought.

“The antisemitic labeling of the Jew as “coward” can hardly survive the performance of the Israeli army.”

Or, as I understand it, a Jew might feel it's acceptable to express pain in a way that an Israeli in the army would not.

“A gun unexpectedly fired behind you produces one hell of a startle. If the gun goes on firing, the startle drops with each explosion because it is no longer a novel event, and the startle is replaced with a steady alert tension that persists long after the gun stops firing, sometimes even for a lifetime.”

That last sentence hit hard.

“For those of us who are inactive slobs, it may comfort us to downgrade athletic achievement by downgrading the athlete to robot.”