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The end of the Clipperton legend (p. 434)

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when an E.T.A. jr. whinges too loudly about some tennis-connected vicissitude or hardship or something, he’s invited to go chill for a bit in the Clipperton Suite, to maybe meditate on some of the other ways to succeed besides votaried self-transcendence and gut-sucking-in and hard daily slogging toward a distant goal you can then maybe, if you get there, live with.

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Schtitt's standing object lesson: the suicide room scrubbed spotless by Mario over one long night, locked and converted into a meditation cell. The last clause — a goal you can maybe, if you get there, live with — is the suicide-of-success logic stated as curriculum.

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