Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
As if somehow irony,_ she recaps for Maxine, __s practiced by a giggling mincing fifth column, actually brought on the events of 11 September, by keeping the country insufficiently serious _ weakening its grip on __eality._ So all kinds of make-believe__orget the delusional state the country__ in already__ust suffer as well. Everything has to be literal now.___eah, the kids are even getting it at school._ Ms. Cheung, an English teacher who if Kugelblitz were a town would be the neighborhood scold, has announced that there shall be no more fictional reading assignments. Otis is terrified, Ziggy less so. Maxine will walk in on them watching Rugrats or reruns of Rocko__ Modern Life, and they holler by reflex, __on__ tell Ms. Cheung!___ou notice,_ Heidi continues, __ow __eality_ programming is suddenly all over the cable, like dog shit? Of course, it__ so producers shouldn__ have to pay real actors scale. But wait! There__ more! Somebody needs this nation of starers believing they__e all wised up at last, hardened and hip to the human condition, freed from the fictions that led them so astray, as if paying attention to made-up lives was some form of evil drug abuse that the collapse of the towers cured by scaring everybody straight again.
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As if somehow irony,_ she recaps for Maxine, __s practiced by a giggling mincing fifth column, actually brought on the events of 11 September, by keeping the country insufficiently serious _ weakening its grip on __eality._ So all kinds of make-believe__orget the delusional state the country__ in already__ust suffer as well. Everything has to be literal now.___eah, the kids are even getting it at school._ Ms. Cheung, an English teacher who if Kugelblitz were a town would be the neighborhood scold, has announced that there shall be no more fictional reading assignments. Otis is terrified, Ziggy less so. Maxine will walk in on them watching Rugrats or reruns of Rocko__ Modern Life, and they holler by reflex, __on__ tell Ms. Cheung!___ou notice,_ Heidi continues, __ow __eality_ programming is suddenly all over the cable, like dog shit? Of course, it__ so producers shouldn__ have to pay real actors scale. But wait! There__ more! Somebody needs this nation of starers believing they__e all wised up at last, hardened and hip to the human condition, freed from the fictions that led them so astray, as if paying attention to made-up lives was some form of evil drug abuse that the collapse of the towers cured by scaring everybody straight again.
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