Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...then came a sound track--history and nature observations by Emett and Barbara Burnett, Louisiana guides for Rails and Trails, a joint service of Amtrak and the National Parks Service. There was show-and-tell in the lounge car too, where Barbara invited us to examine native artifacts--a nutria skull and otter, coyote and beaver pelts...
...irrelevant, they will tell us. You are useless, parasitic hangers-on. You are finished. You were born in the twentieth century...
...thirty years, more or less, we will be the age our parents are now. We will have children. These bundles of joy will be the age we are now. We will rely on them to tell us the truth, no matter how painful, just as our parents rely...
...they will tell us. Thank you, we will say. You are stupid, they will tell us. Thank you, we will say. Everything you hold dear is worthless, everything you think important is trivial, everything you remember is forgotten, they will tell us. Shut up, shut up, shut up, we will say. But deep in our hearts we will know they are right...
...Students at the River are quick to criticize Quad life as inconvenient and isolated. Yet residents defend their home. They tell first-years that it's not that far, that they won't lose touch with your friends, and that the Quad's atmosphere is hard to beat...