Fearful fun-seeker: “We can’t go to a dive bar. What if somebody asks me to arm wrestle?”
Sympathetic friend: “That will probably happen.”
Fearful fun-seeker: “Fine. Let me get a pump in.”
Overheard while making evening plans
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Signs of Damage
“He looked nice, shy. She didn’t say hello, or smile, because despite her costume—a lace trimmed slip and her grandmother’s pearl choker—she didn’t care much that day.”
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How Prophecy was Invented
“In another town, she was a storyteller, but the children had spit back her stories wrong, turning the characters into parodies of themselves.”
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Flood: Full Design
The Nass is coming. Find a nice comfy ark and kick your feet up—it’s gonna be a while.
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Princeton’s Organ Lenders
A Nass writer reports on the people responsible for the Princeton chapel’s iconic sounds.
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Renassance: Full Design
This week, the Nass faced death but returned from its sepulcher with new might. Grab a physical issue, or browse through the full design here!
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PRISMS
A Nass writer reports on the launch of a new Gender and Sexuality Studies journal in the context of a federal crackdown on DEI efforts.
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On Chalance
This Nass writer interrogates the phenomena of “chalance,” and the increasing fear of vulnerability
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Falling apart in late december
“I see an estranged version of myself laughing at dinner, responding to texts, asking questions in conversations. I ask her: How are you acting so normal?”