Developments in academia, second series. "A group of students seized the Frank J. Bellhope memorial aquarium to protest the treatment of Roberta, the manatee savant. The protest was a failure. I called a symposium on the history of student seizure of campus buildings. The symposium was a success." -- Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table.
[As She Climbed Across the Table, by Jonathan Lethem, Doubleday, 1997. A love triangle between an anthropologist, a physicist and a yearning artificial void, which is also -- you'll have to trust me on this -- 2001: A Space Odyssey restaged as a campus novel. Tends to have Don DeLillo's voice where now you'd expect Lethem's, although that doesn't make it any less fun.]
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