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Smolny Institute for Noble Maidens, which had once been a boarding school and had since become the headquarters of the worldwide proletarian revolution.
Century of Progress World’s Fair in Chicago, 1933
But she had come to know that she did not have to be just like Veronika in every particular; and she believed that Veronika’s very sternness, her ferocity, her unwillingness to feel vulnerable, had in the end made her more so.
She had been learning that getting respect was a matter of acting like you deserved it while pretending you didn’t care;
ITW.
not sure what ITW was
liked to bustle about straightening and inspecting things better left alone.
This was the bad side of the high plains: communities so remote that people could get away with anything, and, lacking contact with settled places, could wander far down strange thoughtways from which there was no route back to sanity.
Gedankenexperiment.”
“Anyway, if we know everything about Time, we know nothing about Energy.”
anyone could be made polite with enough beatings.
Pace’s attitude seemed to be that the sole benefit of plan-making was that it kept the plan-making sorts out of his hair.
But in a sense it didn’t matter. That was the beauty of the Reggie approach. A plan can’t go awry if it doesn’t exist.
You didn’t go to a funeral to break new ground in a friendship. You just showed up, made small talk, nibbled on things, and went home. It was really just a way of taking a census, a head count of who was still alive.
Watching a delectable young man like Owen trying to outdo his rival by going out into the world and doing rash, stupid things made for some of the best watching ever. It was why they had cheerleaders at football games. Not just there as entertainment, but to be entertained.
