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This reads as a dry joke about expectations and undercutting them. It points to the gap between a famous writing program and a more ordinary, human memory of being there, suggesting that ambition and life do not always line up neatly. It lands when someone looks back on a formative place and finds that a small habit, like going to games, mattered as much as the official purpose of being there.
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About David Shields
American author
David Shields is an American author of 25 books. His work spans fiction, nonfiction, and criticism, and he is known for books such as Reality Hunger, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, and Black Planet. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, twice an NEA Fellow, and a winner of the PEN Revson Award. He has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the PEN West Award, and has served as senior contributing editor of Conjunctions.
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