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The Okayness of the Young - by Mary Gaitskill - Out of It

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...and the incomprehension of the old

I just don’t understand these young people! This is a follow-up to my last post The Despair of the Young; if you haven’t read that one, it will be hard to follow this one. I wrote this one in response to particular a comment about how dark D of the Y was and how seemingly hopeless; the comment made me feel that I had not emphasized strongly enough what I said at the end of the piece that actually, my students were not just doomed, quivering wrecks but were “ambitious, humorous and bright in the face of everything.” (By ambitious I didn’t mean in pursuit of career success, I meant in terms…

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