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Weekly Contest #358
There was nothing about my body that had been built for ballet. Nothing in me ever hinted that I could even approach that discipline. From the very beginning, every movement had been impossible to replicate. There wasn’t a single thing that came to me completely naturally. I gazed at my mother rehearsing on La Scala’s stage, with that mix of admiration and self-pity that belongs to someone who tries to excel but can’t—or just wasn’t born to. I watched her lift into the air like a bird and land on pointe like a dragonfly, beside my father, a ...
Weekly Contest #43
“Martinelli for the last time: you pronounce Kierkeg-"oo"-rd, not Kierkeg-"aa"-rd! If I hear you say it wrong at the final exam be certain to lose two marks on my behalf.”“Professor it’s the foreign language fault: I am Italian and used to pronounce things the way they are written. It’s already impossible to understand this philosophical thinking, and now this dutch block even makes it hard to understand his name!” thundered Richard, sitting in the last bench of the classroom and intent upon snapping the marker cap, as if aiming at Kierkegar...
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