Marika
2024-05-27 17:39:57 UTC
“After her dirt-poor youth, Reed College must have been a revelation.
Reed’s current tuition runs $60,620 a year, and even back then, it was
flush with enough trust fund bohemians to earn it the unofficial motto
“Communism. Atheism. Free Love.”* Toad’s Sam Rosen is one of these
students. He is an aimless, impressionable, rapaciously curious manic pixie
dream boy, and though they never sleep together, he becomes Sally’s great
love. Quickly, she falls into his orbit. Dunn mines her experience to
create the characters that people Sam and Sally’s world. They are pompous
gits, who “flung etymological witticisms at … the staff, the faculty of
college, Plato, Wittgenstein, Goethe, and various other defuncts with whom
the whole group gave the distinct impression of having shared many a crust
and chortle.”
Excerpt From
Toad
Katherine Dunn
Reed’s current tuition runs $60,620 a year, and even back then, it was
flush with enough trust fund bohemians to earn it the unofficial motto
“Communism. Atheism. Free Love.”* Toad’s Sam Rosen is one of these
students. He is an aimless, impressionable, rapaciously curious manic pixie
dream boy, and though they never sleep together, he becomes Sally’s great
love. Quickly, she falls into his orbit. Dunn mines her experience to
create the characters that people Sam and Sally’s world. They are pompous
gits, who “flung etymological witticisms at … the staff, the faculty of
college, Plato, Wittgenstein, Goethe, and various other defuncts with whom
the whole group gave the distinct impression of having shared many a crust
and chortle.”
Excerpt From
Toad
Katherine Dunn