The teachers would catch me dreaming out the window and ask the shrill, predictable question, "Roger, would you care to rejoin the class?" I would think, "Not really," as I swiveled reluctantly toward Planet Earth. Being an apolitical junkie, I feel the same way in this season, which is an unacceptable (not to mention unemployable) position for a journalist. From time to time, I try to be interested in what they are saying--the specialists on TV and in the papers who are lecturing on Bush, Gore, Tecumseh, the tundra, [pi]r2. (Shouldn't it be "pi is squared"?) But a blind man could...
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