Line #12 Funny/TheSecretHistory


1	! In the Novel:
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3	* Bunny's essay on Creator/JohnDonne and Izaak Walton.
4	-->And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.
5	* The frequent spot-on liberal arts school satire.
6	* Every single scene involving the owner of Redeemed Repairs, a down-home Vermonter who gets drunk on fame after alleging that Bunny was kidnapped by Arab terrorists.
7	* The scene where Richard and Judy Poovey are doing cocaine in the car park. Actually, any scene involving Judy Poovey.
8	--> I listened politely to the rest of her story, which ended, as I knew it would, with Judy being pyrotechnically ill behind a hot-dog stand.
9	* When, due to their extraordinarily formal appearance, Charles and Richard are mistaken for Mormons by a waitress at a diner.
10	* A grumpy and sleep-deprived Francis losing his rag with Henry.
11	-->"I don't want a goddamn doughnut!"
12	* All Bunny's friends being coerced into staying at [[BigScrewedUpFamily the Corcorans']] house before the funeral, and the absolute ordeal that ensues.
13	** Camilla has to bunk with Marion:
14	--->"Oh, you don't have it so bad," she said. "Last night I had to sleep with Marion."
15	--->"Same room?"
16	--->"Same ''bed."''
17	--->Francis's eyes widened with admiration and horror. "Oh, really? Oh, I say. That's awful," he said in a hushed, respectful voice.
18	** Mr Corcoran telling a wildly misremembered story about talking Henry out of buying an aeroplane.
19	** There's also no shortage of BlackComedy at the funeral itself, especially the eulogy from Bunny's old football coach.
20	--->"Bunny Corcoran...was a '''winner.'''"
21	* Charles insisting that he take a mangy feral cat to Francis's house. Not only does it rough both Francis and Richard up considerably, it then has an attack of diarrhoea in Francis's car.
22	* "Asparagus is in season."
23	* Henry digging around for ferns in the woods just before the gang's inevitable betrayal.
24	* A great bit of BlackComedy during the otherwise deadly serious climactic scuffle: [[spoiler:Richard is shot in the stomach and is offended when everyone's too caught up in the rest of the drama to notice or care.]]
25	* Richard freaks out in the immediate wake of [[spoiler: the murder]], calls up [[TheSociopath Henry]], and [[DissonantSerenity bitterly]] [[InsufferableGenius regrets it]].
26	--> "When you're worried about something," said Henry abruptly, "have you ever tried thinking in a different language?"
27	--> "What?"
28	--> "It slows you down. Keeps your thoughts from running wild. A good discipline in any circumstance. Or you might try doing what the Buddhists do."
29	--> "What?"
30	--> "In the practice of Zen there is an exercise called ''zazen'' — similar, I think, to the Theravedic practice of ''vipassana''. One sits facing a blank wall. No matter the emotion one feels, no matter how strong or violent, one remains motionless. Facing the wall. The discipline, of course, is in continuing to sit."
31	--> There was a silence, during which I struggled for language to adequately express what I thought of this goofball advice.
32	* Cloke Rayburn, interviewed for an article about the search for Bunny, desperately trying to cover his tracks:
33	--> ''Cloke Rayburn, a school friend of Corcoran's and one of those who first notified police, said that Corcoran "is a real straight guy--[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely not mixed up in drugs or anything like that]]."''
34	* Invariant Subspaces
35	-->''Dr Blind (pronounced ‘Blend’) was about ninety years old and had taught, for the past fifty years, a course called ‘Invariant Subspaces’ which was noted for its monotony and virtually absolute unintelligibility, as well as for the fact that the final exam, as long as anyone could remember, had consisted of the same single yes-or-no question. The question was three pages long but the answer was always ‘Yes.’ That was all you needed to know to pass Invariant Subspaces.''
36	* Francis's mom propositioning Charles for a threesome with her and her husband.
37	* With the widespread (and false) belief that drugs played some role in Bunny's death, the college hosts an interschool quiz competition on the dangers of drug use. Hampden dominates with an unstoppable team of the biggest dealers and users on campus.
38	* Francis' mom suspecting that her son's become a drug addict, writes him a concerned letter... because the money is tight right now and the family ''does not'' have the means to support his drug abuse right now.
39	* When the group has to carefully curate their innocent images in front of the FBI agents. Henry's idea of it includes overthinking what books he should be seen reading - Homer or Thomas Aquinas.

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