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Everyone In The Phantom Tollbooth Looked A Little Bit Like William F. Buckley
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Everyone In The Phantom Tollbooth Looked A Little Bit Like William F. Buckley

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Daniel Lavery
Aug 01, 2019
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Yesterday a friend asked if I’d ever read The Phantom Tollbooth – I think it had something to do with their work as an academic, but it might have been pursuant to that day’s Twitter conversation about that brief period in the 70s and 80s where junior high class schedules were a serious heroic asset in children’s fantasy:

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