Able Chip was a highly capable learner.  This is what he learned in five years:
1. How to speak
2. How to read
3. How to suffer
4. Colors

Face Moods

The next five years he spent learning the following:
1. Nothing is fair, to the extent that an obsession with fairness is seen as immaturity
2. Long division
3. Face moods
4. That his penis was, indeed, alive.

This is a girl and this is how girls are.

Then another five years, and the following:
1. Drugs
2. Love
3. Trade-offs – passion for survival, and so on
4. Are vaginas sentient?  Discuss.

LOOK A COLLEGE COLLEGE LOOK AT IT SAVING YOU

Then after that:
1. Hate
2. How hate eventually becomes indifference, to the extent that you no longer care about anything, because you do not, in your heart of hearts, think that you can truly affect anything
3. Shades of fear
4. Types of port/college

Let's go buy a house.

Then again:
1. That you can age
2. That truth is elusive
3. How settling feels
4. Carpenter ants

Let's go to work.

Then:
1. Affairs and their aftermath
2. Types of massages
3. How to process TPS reports
4. Under-eye softness

After this, Chip went crazy.  He went to the desert to draw and be naked.  He was naked and alone.  He tanned off all skin that did not appeal to him, that did not fit.  He became other to himself.  Then he ran still further.  He is jogging round the globe, sighing; I hear him in the night.

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