Sam Lipsyte

Judging by your face, the what-the-fuck nodes in your cerebral cortex must be a real light show.

Is this what Principal Fontana meant by the phrase 'well-rounded'?It__ fucking spherical, Catamounts.

You think everyone will stay behind and do everything you did all over again, forever. You picture old geezers in jean jackets doing whip-its behind the plaza.

The Rough Beast snorted. __ou don__ get it at all, buddy. It__ not about wrestling. It__ about stories. We__e storytellers.__aperton studied him. __omebody at my job just said that.___t__ true! You have to be able to tell the story to get people on board for anything. A soft drink, a suck sesh, elective surgery, gardening, even your thing--public space? I prefer private space, but that__ cool. Anyway, nobody cares about anything if there isn__ a story attached. Ask the team that wrote the Bible. Ask Vincent Allan Poe.___ut doesn__ it seem kind of creepy?_ Caperton said. __ll of us just going around calling ourselves storytellers?__he Rough Beast shrugged. __ell, you can be negative. That__ the easy way out.