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)