Curtis Sittenfeld - My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to...

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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

Curtis Sittenfeld

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Meine Internatserfahrung war das einzige, was ich für Hunderte und Hunderte von Seiten stark genug fühlte, über das ich schreiben konnte. In der Biologie rieche ich immer noch den Formaldehyd der fötalen Schweine.

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