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If I can indulge myself for just a moment, I'm feeling a little postmodern this morning. It's nothing that should bestir the culture warriors. It's just that I'm supposed to have a "take" on this whole Jeremy Lin business and, frankly, I don't have one. So I'm going to write up my take on not having a take. On this one, I'm Bogart in the faculty lounge, a couple of slugs of bourbon and four Gauloises into the evening, waiting for Bergman to finish up her lecture on Derrida and stop by for a nightcap.
"I've heard a lot of stories in my time. They went along with the sound of a tinny piano playing in the parlor downstairs. 'Mister, I meta man once when I was a kid,' it always began."
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