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[apoetic]

We had a research librarian guest lecturer in my American Cultural Landscapes class with the sensitive professor. During the introduction he read from a personal statement she had written describing her goals and got extremely choked up at the line "equip students to succeed". After regaining his composure he read the line again like it was the

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[ex_karamazov744]

I'm not sure what you think is strange about that passage? The double meaning of "work"?

[apoetic]

It's the style more than anything. The chapter is written with a mind-boggling number of ellipses and arbitrarily italicized words.

"The seventh chapter insists that the realization of the interest every map serves frees it to serve . . . mine, yours; that is, to work . . . for us."

I just can't get into the dramatic pauses.

"Hey, it works!"

[carbonscoring]

Most innapropriate use of "on the contrary" ever. And overall, my goodness.