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One should not avoid one's tests, although they are perhaps the most
dangerous game one could play and are in the end tests which are taken before
ourselves and before no other judge. (Beyond Good and Evil, section 41)
—Introduction to the syllabus for Philosophy 322, Superman and Man: Nietzsche
and Cobain (Professor Uzig)
A rolled-up newspaper spun through the air, defining place. What kind of place?
The kind of place often described as leafy or even idyllic, where a boy on a
bicycle still tossed the paper onto lawns and porches, sometimes over actual
picket fences, where the newspaper still brought news.
"Nat," called a voice inside one of the houses, a simple 1950s roofed box, much
like all the others.
"What is it, Mom?"
"Come quick."
"This couldn't be happening to a better boy," said Mrs. Smith, the guidance
counselor at Clear Creek High. "Or should I say young man?"
She raised her hand, pink and stubby. Was Mrs. Smith going to pinch his cheek?
Nat tried not to flinch; he owed her a lot. At the last second, her hand veered
away and settled for an upper-arm squeeze instead.
"What a question!" said Miss Brown, the school principal, regarding Mrs. Smith
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