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(8) Snow Line
You know that weird exchange student in your class? The one who was great at advanced calculus, but who seemed to think that you could talk in mathematical terms and still have everyone understand you? It's kind of like being locked in a room with him for a week and trying to make sense of it. That's actually very deliberate—it helps convey the feeling of this world and its whacked priorities extremely well—but you'd better cowboy up and get ready for a serious reading slog. This text is as heavy duty as they come.