“I felt I would live a long, lonely, useless life
and die alone and unmissed (did I mention
that I never bothered filling out any grad-school
applications?) It’s self-indulgent, I know, but
this is what happens to the overachieving
but essentially useless children of parents
who raised their children to do well on tests but
failed to equip them with the poison-tipped
spurs of true ambition.”
– Jon Fasman,
The Geographer’s Library, p.5