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the tyrant and the fake friend

[...] It's interesting that the two false administrative styles--the tyrant and the fake friend--are also the two main stereotypes that books and television shows and comic stripes present administrators as. One suspects, in fact, that the mental picture the insecure administrator erects inside him…

—p.435 The Pale King §43 (433) by David Foster Wallace
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desperate to be one of the guys archive/silicon-jest

'[...] The sort of guy who comes to your party and you get him drunk enough to pass out by nine and put him in the Rescue Rangers minibus and strip off everything but his shoes and socks and leave him propped up on a bus stop bench in East St. Louis and he'll not only survive somehow but the next n…

—p.430 §42 (428) by David Foster Wallace
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105 pounds soaking wet

[...] It was not just that at almost sixteen Stecyk was 5'1" and 105 pounds soaking wet, which he was (soaking wet) when the boys in his PE class's shower all urinated on him after knocking him to the tile floor, which ritual they called a Stecyk special [...]

—p.418 §39 (417) by David Foster Wallace