15/02/2026 13:43

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I pegged him for a wealthy minority jock—the kind who had a neurosurgeon mother and an executive fathe The room is a murky shade of green. All of it fascinated my father, whose view of the book understandably shared little with Taft’s. ” Sure enough, in the photo I’d shown him, two little nubs stuck out the top of the statue’s head, like goatish satyr horns.

“You don’t know anything about him. When the floors are polished and the greens are trimmed it’s a respectable place to draw a beer or shoot some pool. ” “Why are you defending him?” “I’m not. We left the windows open sometimes, to hear the rain in late February, or the conversations of drunk freshmen.