twenty-seven years and one million words
So it turns out that I got the highest mark in the class on Thursday's exam.
Perhaps being the first in the room to finish an exam isn't always a bad thing? (Or perhaps it's an irrelevant marker.)
In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.
—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009