“…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.”

Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 3: “Miss Batterson and Benton”, p. 80

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poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914–1965

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