September 2011
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“Well, as Jean-Paul Sartre says in Barlett’s Familiar Quotations, “Hell is other people.”
—Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut
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“A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life”
by David Foster Wallace
When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.
The man who’d introduced them didn’t much like either of them, though he acted...