All the way up through the academic world she had spent a lot of energy fending off the blandly patronizing… — Gregory Benford
All the way up through the academic world she had spent a lot of energy fending off the blandly patronizing efforts to enter her in what she termed the Oppression Sweepstakes. Now that she had done something worth noting, blackness attached itself to her like a lamprey.
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