Revolutionary: “I truly want to fuck the framework.”
Ally: “I thought you were ace, bro.”
Revolutionary: “I meant fuck UP the framework!”
Overheard while studying
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Nass Recommends Local Nature Preserves
Where a Nass writer urges us to explore the nearby natural world.
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The Story about a War and Some Other Things
“Anyway, I’ve heard stories are supposed to have morals. I don’t know if this is much of a story, really, but I’ll give it a moral anyhow.”
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Oeuvre Reviews: Joshua Malina in Sports Night
“It was a chilling fragment of the 20th century hiding under the innocent guise of a sitcom, leaving me shaking in my little Gen-Z boots.”
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“That Tender Infinity” : Or, Fifteen Vignettes on Love
“When I saw him again for the first time in nearly thirteen months, we chatted as though no time at all had passed, as though we were still standing there, waiting for the train to arrive.”
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Nasstrology: Valentine’s Day Edition
The Nass gives its lovelorn readers guidance for the greeting card industry’s favorite holiday.
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Georgia Canon and the Blue Wave
A writer reflects on his home state’s political climate leading up to the 2020 Senate Runoff Elections.
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Hats Off – Full Design
This week, the Nass learns about the Menendez Brothers, makes friends over Zoom, and reviews the drinks of fall.
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The Virtues of Friction
A visit to a meeting of the Anscombe Society, a conservative student group at Princeton.
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Thirty-One Years in the Making: The Story of the Menendez Brothers
An interview with journalist Robert Rand about his work on the infamous 1989 murders.
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Friendship, Inside-Out
“I was never the kid to get tangled up in chatroom relationships and online communities like many of my friends in middle and high school. I repent now, for the way I invalidated, even in my own head, the authenticity of their attachments. Laughter over Zoom is still laughter.”
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after mother
“the catching of blood / & buttercream pipes / around edges as the mattress coils / find a home in my ribcage.”
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Fall Drinks
A review of autumn beverages, from natty wine to Splenda-less coffee.
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Georgia on My Mind – Full Design
This week, the Nass bruises, telescopes rhythm, and spends 24 hours on Zoom.
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Telescoping Rhythm
In the succeeding entries, we telescope “rhythm.” Sonically evocative and personally connotative, we examine the word in its multiplicity of meanings.