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For that line of analysis of this period,
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it's very appropriate as an innovative ending.
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I think, though, in this novel,
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it is partly there as a way of taking on something really hard.
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So, I talked a little bit on Monday
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about the quality of this novel as a campus novel,
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as the product of a young person,
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and I was joking with you a little bit
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about the bar being set high
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for the achievements one can pull off by the age of twenty-two.
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I want to use that fact about Foer--
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that this is a first novel,