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"[...] You hate anyone who's not as smart as you aspire to be. Because you can manipulate them, or because they don't try hard enough to see through you. Even worse is that you both resent men and live for their attention, and your attention-getting makes other girls either despise or lose respect …

subscribing to some hoary ideal of seriousness of subtlety at the expense of the obvious

[...] At orientation he sweatily lurked by snack bowls with an escape-ready smile. [...]

At Yale, promise became indistinguishable from purpose. [...] Whenever he doubted the utility of learning the behavior of light around massive bodies, he reminded himself that it was keeping him alive. [...]

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