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THERE HE IS, GET A GOOD LOOK AT HIM AND PROMISE NOT TO LAUGH—this little guy stooping there Quasimodo-style over a thick book at the lumbering dark wood table in the cathedral library of this suburban New York junior high. With dust on his socks, a morsel of cafeteria lunch stuck on his lip. Girls with bare legs who’ve just started developing, but he won't look up, afraid that his hormones might cause him to explode, but he’s lost in the book; it's just too good. Here, it is already 1964. He’s thirteen. Kennedy has just died, the Beatles have just arrived, and the Stones are releasing their debut album, too. Clay has just become Ali, and the GI’s in Vietnam are still mostly called advisors. The red carpet’s getting ready to unfold. And this little guy is sitting there, reading ''The Naked and the Dead''. | THERE HE IS, GET A GOOD LOOK AT HIM AND PROMISE NOT TO LAUGH—this little guy stooping there Quasimodo-style over a thick book at the lumbering dark wood table in the cathedral library of this suburban New York junior high. With dust on his socks, a morsel of cafeteria lunch stuck on his lip. Girls with bare legs who’ve just started developing, but he won't look up, afraid that his hormones might cause him to explode, but he’s lost in the book; it's just too good. Here, it is already 1964. He’s thirteen. Kennedy has just died, the Beatles have just arrived, and the Stones are releasing their debut album, too. Clay has just become Ali, and the GI’s in Vietnam are still mostly called advisors. The red carpet’s getting ready to unfold. And this little guy is sitting there, reading ''The Naked and the Dead''. | ||