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Insane after coronavirus? By Patricia Lockwood.

My story will be that John Harvard gave it to me.

Who's that? I asked. pointing at a bronze bust in the reading room

"'where I had arrived to give my lecture,

"'and was told that it was the university's founder, John Harvard.

"'Damn, I said.

"'It never even occurred to me that Harvard was a guy.

"'It was the night of March 3rd,

"'and traveling didn't seem so foolhardy as it would even a week later.

At that point, the accepted wisdom was that hand sanitizer was the great necessity, and that the virus was being mostly spread by touch.

On a Q&A message board I frequent, there were multiple questions in those early days from people

desperately wondering how to stop picking their noses. Something was coming for us eventually.

It was a pleasure to be in the reading room, a pleasure to note that the carpet was ugly,

a pleasure to learn that Harvard was a guy, a pleasure to send the controlled flow of my voice into the microphone

"'and out to the hundred or so people in the room.

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