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this book is out March 14th from Penguin, btw. I almost never request arcs but I begged for this one -- @bananakarenina the young legend
this passage from elif batuman's "the idiot" feels especially relevant at the moment. everyone thinks they are dumbopic.twitter.com/MhY5xhK1JB
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loved the possessed. really looking forward to this.
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it's the only thing currently keeping one toe of me dipped in the world
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Just like in A CHRISTMAS CAROL, everyone thinks they're Bob Cratchit even if they're really Scrooge.
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I actually felt so bad for being Scrooge. And every year I'm reminded of how I fail
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You'd make Dickens proud. He wanted to us to strive to be better people.
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Most Americans also think we are the rebels in every movie about heroic rebels
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After this revelation you have to go one level deeper and ask "are they me?"
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Stan Lee once said said: "There are no villains in the Marvel universe". Nobody thinks they're the bad guy.
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@EwaSR Its the alt right learning theyre the bad guys in Star Wars all over again - 1 more reply
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I noticed that a lot in the years just after high school: everyone thought they'd been unpopular in high school.
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Which left me wondering: what standard were they using? I wish I could talk to the girls I perceived as popular:
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What do /they/ think about that time?
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The next level of this is the popularity of the Mitchell and Webb "Nazis" sketch ...
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... which is *about* how
#EverybodyThinksTheyAreDumbo, and still no-one wonders if it could possibly apply to *them*.
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The rest of the students looked at them aghast as they all thought to themselves "YOU are the mean girls!"
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