by its pointless circularity
"By Its Pointless Circularity," April 2, 2022 (#92)
title from Christine by Stephen King (1983)
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon (1995)
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis (2014)
Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card (1989)
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (2005)
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (2013)
last line from "Boys" by Rick Moody (2000)
By Its Pointless Circularity
Watching her maintain her cool administrator’s gaze
inspired by charges of front-running made in
the issue of smoking—it was the fact that Step
had been the star of such television series as
extracting the maximum propaganda value from the
crooked smirk on his face. I guessed that he was still
paid individually for achievements that were essentially
where the bugs like to be best, where the food is
an extremely lengthy trial, during which I shall be forced to
find their failings and remedy them if he could and to
pay attention to something that is making no impression
in the middle of the night. The room was an open pit, with no
knowing what was falling into it, it was all too much for
their naked mauve necks and scalps - featherless because
he had bought secondhand for the occasion—
a time worth being nostalgic over, a time that never existed.
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From Seinfeld 3.16, "The Fix-Up" (1992)