Seeking to avoid yet more time wasted in preparation, Cheswick prioritized establishing a beachhead of catholic understanding above plumbing depths of nuance, determining that consumption of foreign texts in their original languages, while desirable, would prove unattainable.
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However, for most firmly canonized texts there existed a disconcerting overabundance of competing translations, a botheration forcing him into further expenditure of analysis, to discover which rendering had received scholarship's approbation as the definitive effort.
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Cheswick completed the list in October of his twentieth year, a tightly-typed stack as thick as a porterhouse.
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The grand undertaking commenced in November with a primer on speed-reading technique.
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One night he roused from deep slumber to the dismayed realization he would never finish. Impossible.
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His aspirational pace, presuming six hours a day of study, remained a benchmark untouched. Untouched? Never even approached, not with the inconveniences life contrived at every instance.
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My God, time spent at work alone!
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A year earlier, some pigheaded professor assigned him material not on his list, highhandedly refusing to capitulate to reasoned petition, and so Cheswick had thrown off the yoke of university forever—momentarily forgetting, in the heat of his pique, his other entanglements.
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Somehow, before his universal extraction, he had managed (how he could not say) to saddle himself with a wife, and then (to his everlasting woe) that wife had gotten herself with child, and both now presented an unending chain of needful petition and expensive requirement.
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It seems our schools are still failing at basic sex education.
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Poor Cheswick didn't read Our Bodies Ourselves yet.
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