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Control Units

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another investigative journalism piece, this time into supermax prisons (specifically, the Federal Correctional Complex in Colorado)

Franzen, J. (2003). Control Units. In Franzen, J. How to Be Alone. Picador, pp. 211-241

(North American) buttocks

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keister in

defined as, "carry in one's rectum"

—p.232 by Jonathan Franzen
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keister in

defined as, "carry in one's rectum"

—p.232 by Jonathan Franzen
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political (originally communist) propaganda, especially in art or literature

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tired agitprop hyperbole

—p.240 by Jonathan Franzen
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tired agitprop hyperbole

—p.240 by Jonathan Franzen
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the American English term for tableland, an elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs

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erosional mesas

—p.241 by Jonathan Franzen
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erosional mesas

—p.241 by Jonathan Franzen
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in a series of distinct stages; not continuously

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stepwise dwindling of an innocence

—p.241 by Jonathan Franzen
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stepwise dwindling of an innocence

—p.241 by Jonathan Franzen
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