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Original publication
1991
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Opening Excerpt
From the storyAbout four weeks after I took the Vow, I had become so marooned in the repetitions of Raymond James Burns’s course in World Communism that I made the mistake of yawning in class.
“Hubbard, am I boring you?” Ray Jim asked.
Story Vibe & Style Profile
Emotional Weight
2.4 / 5
Reflective
Narrative Pacing
2.1 / 5
Deliberate
Literary Style
2.2 / 5
Clear Realism
Speculative / Reality
1.9 / 5
Realistic / Mimetic
Appearances
The Paris Review
The Paris Review No. 120 — Fall 1991 · Sep 1, 1991
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