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a career of teaching high- school social studies in the city district, daring principals to fire him for his ebullient Trotskyism

every "real" thing in the world was as shabbily protean, underneath, as this electric chair

the rutabaga smelled carious and was already cold

he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell

Gary considered waiting for a less populated car, a ride less pullulating with mediocrity and body smells