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Homely, weak, forbidden to play with more robust children, often left alone while the two women worked, he developed his own kind of compensation. "Any time I looked out the window," his mother recalls, "my boy was looking in the trash cans. He was always searching for something, but he didn't know what. He used to say, 'But Maggie, there might be something down there...
...following note was found in the trash barrel near the LAMPOON building, and is reproduced here in its entirety...
...King Farouk had cached everything he could beg, buy and demand-tiny telescopes with diamond sprays, priceless relics of Pharaonic culture, a 100blade knife, an outstanding coin collection, a Nazi marshal's gaudy baton. Egypt's revolutionary regime was putting all of it-treasure and trash-on the block in a six-week sale. It was the biggest mass merchandising of such bric-a-brac in nearly two centuries. Egypt needs the money for a hydroelectric dam and for land reform...
...himself. The trap worked: when the culprit arrived, both Instructor Geis and the campus chief of police were on hand to greet him. The culprit and his three cohorts quickly confessed. They had gotten the examination questions from a used Mimeograph stencil that had been tossed into a campus trash can. "But some day," remarked one of them as he was led away, "I'm going to have to take the course." Instructor Geis's course: elementary criminology...
...great artist. I agree that she is ... There is greater value in painting a painting, to society as well as the artist, than there is in either the subsequent purchase or sale of it. The real question is: How can a great artist produce trash? Answer: lack of training or undeveloped skill...