December 2011
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just the tip of the iceberg
I just administered the reading section of a mock TOEFL exam for my cousin, who is 20 years old and just failed his first semester of college in the States. He scored 17/74 points. He cannot matriculate as a full-time academic student until he a) scores at least 70/120 on the actual TOEFL and b) passes his remedial English classes at school.*
Self, say hello to the rest of your week...
“We were listening to music—
a little Bach, a little mournful Schubert....”
– Adam Zagajewski, “Blizzard”
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Ramblings on Interstitial Spaces, Part 2/2
While I’m on the topic of weird, in-between places, I might as well mention something else that happened during Thanksgiving weekend.
On Friday, I attended my high school’s 5-year reunion. It was held in the relatively quiet downstairs space of a pub in Harvard Square, which was probably the only reason I attended at all. (For the proximity, I mean, not the fact that it was at Tommy...
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“[It] is only by knowing how to write that you can make use in literature of your...”
– Virginia Woolf, “The Modern Essay”.
