Category: Reflections

90,000 Miles to Nowhere

“It began something like this.”

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Close to Home

Jeff Nunokawa on Spelman Hall

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Escape to the Beach

A day at the beach, deconstructed, reconstructed

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Poland Rising Part II

“There’s no way to keep their memory alive perfectly; with time, their carcasses will fade from the streets and then from memory.”

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Things Unsaid

“11. you never smiled that widely when you were with me”

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A Community Like My Own

“But I can say this: as I stood on stage on that final sold-out Saturday and belted out the final lyrics to the finale, “We’re home!” for the first time since arriving on Princeton’s campus I felt like I had a place on this campus. I felt at home.”

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Good Dude

“Praise is cheap. How many times at Princeton have I been introduced to a ‘good dude’?”

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Poland Rising

“Why does it happen that our time in Warsaw culminates in this very room, face to face with a novel that seems, much like the Palace of Culture and like the current incarnation of the city of Warsaw, to plant itself resolutely on top of a history that has no monuments, no voice to speak for itself?”

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Off to the Races

“I had no time to consider their relative merits because, at that moment, Mr. Discipline barked “Begin!” and we were off to the races.”

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Monozygotic

“In the birth of night, we are interlocking curls again.”

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Telescoping Sleep

In the succeeding entries, we telescope our sleepy selves.

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Astana

“I am forever a part of this corner of the world—how could I not be, when it is the reason that I get those strange looks and questions to begin with?”

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