>i don't get it. there's nothing about this piece that seems to be
>about the author pursuing his or her own needs above everyone's else's.
You're right. I meant something else.
>perhaps you mean wordy?
Yeah,in a bad teenage poetry kind of way. I'm sure anyone who's into reading and writing did something similar at one time or another. I did for sure (before tearing it in little pieces and throwing it in someone else's garbage. :-))
Max's response was good I think:
>In college I wrote exactly this sort of essay (w/fewer 50-cent
>words). Now I (and many others, no doubt) marvel, not without some
>envy, at the good fortune of those who can attend Berkeley and the
>foolishness and political lunacy of these critiques.
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