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none who protested the production of these men as twenty-first century sex deviants, or the almost extralegal management of their behavior by a local news station.9
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of Control
The Excitement-Hope-Acquisition-Contempt cycle of seduction always left Orin stunned and wrung out and not at his quickest on the uptake.
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
Father grinned and winked at his visitor. Joe Kane decided that the man who confronted him was mildly insane but harmless.
Paul Negri • Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers: Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Daniel Defoe, Thomas Hardy, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, ... more (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)
In 2020, Avital Balwit had won a Rhodes Scholarship and turned it down, first to run Carrick Flynn’s congressional campaign and then to give away FTX’s money. Leopold Aschenbrenner, who had entered Columbia University at the age of fifteen and graduated four years later as class valedictorian, had just declined a spot at Yale Law School to work for
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