Stoner

you can impress upon the world a sense of your importance.

ou're cut out for failure,

you're bright enough

None of them ever raised the question of that relationship

talking late into the night

got in the habit of meeting on Friday afternoons at a small saloon in downtown Columbia,

to be on familiar terms with a few of his fellow students

to recapture the sense of discovery he had felt on that first day

putting the finishing touches on his thesis

It was as if the last tie between himself and the old life had been cut.