Carolina Quotes...girls who had read Wittgenstein as high school baby-sitters were rejected because the school’s quota of abnormally intelligent students had already been filled that year.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
Chapter 3: “Miss Batterson and Benton”, p. 80
- work
- Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel]
- year
- 1954
- locator
- p. 80
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