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437 pages, Paperback
First published February 17, 2000
- it's self-conscious & pretentious, but pretentious in the way that smart kids are when they're trying to be cool but are still riled up by grammatical slips etc. — betrayed by their own proclivities
We walk the halls and the playground, and we are taller, we radiate. We are orphans. As orphans, we are celebrities...We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows—a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's attention. (96)