Every year, thousands of students knock on the door of Ivy League universities.

“The recipes are chosen not only for taste, but for their ‘momliness,’ a quality they say they can’t define, but everybody knows what it is — usually reflected in a favorite saying that they put on the page with the dates,” Dianne [Shiner] wrote in a letter to The Montana Standard.

But his design is wonderful. He’s getting more and more abstract every day. He’d given up the third dimension when I was there and was just thinking of giving up the second. Soon, he says, there’ll be just the blank canvas. That’s the logical conclusion. Complete abstraction.

He could talk morals to others in the grand manner, and with positive enjoyment, but to be sermonized himself secretly exasperated him because it constrained him and made him self-conscious.