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Originally posted by ltl/fb
From personal experience, I would not recommend grilling your under-13 child at length on the finer points of, say, Fahrenheit 451 and then yelling at said child for not paying sufficient attention/reading too quickly.
Not that I'm scarred, or anything.
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Speaking of cock rings (I just wanted to say that, as I don't get enough opportunities to work that into conversation; and really, can you ever have enough?)
Anyway, speaking of stories that remain branded into one's brain -- and not in a good way -- I remember some short story about how a futuristic society would administer some kind of intelligence (?) test to each child at age 12 (or whatever). The story centers around a set of parents who, although very worried about the outcome of the test (as there is some hint given that a less-than-desirable outcome will have grave consequences), put on a brave face, and send junior into the testing center with smiles and encouragement.
The grotesque, O'Henry-on-psychotropic-drugs ending is that junior never comes back from the test as he is put to death -- not for doing poorly, but for doing too well.
God, it gives me the creeps just to write about it here. {{Shudder}} (Obviously, I am way too impressionable.)
