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What the others are doing in the ring is fighting. Hakuho is composing little poems of battle.
As for our late-breaking U.S. culture itself, you sometimes have the sense that we’re rolling up the historical carpet behind us as we go, that when we finally vanish, we’ll leave behind nothing but garbage dumps and videos whose codecs won’t play.
He’d slumped in his chair onstage, a hangdog guy with a thin face and a toothy ’80s-nerd quality—the Bill Gates who lost.
Except on YouTube the wilderness might have felt more like itself, might have been more recognizably a wilderness, than here in the physical jungle, where you could not help but see everything—the breakfast sandwiches, the access roads, the villages, the confusion—a nature video would have artificially kept out.
By and large, Wrath adheres to the timeless law of damage in action movies, which is also the idea the NFL dined out on for years—that slashing can wound you but concussive force can only move you around.
But that, too, was merely an opinion, and I didn’t think it was mine.
If you’ve ever been seventeen, and especially if you’ve ever been seventeen in a small town, you’ve had your own year of dark nights. But when you are seventeen, and especially when you are seventeen in a small town, you believe that there is opening before you a mysterious and uncharted realm that exists for you alone. You and your friends are conspirators in a shadow country.
I was wasting time at an advanced enough level not to need help from television.
