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Wed., Jan. 7, 2009

100 Percent Pure German Sweat

A sign of definite intelligence - The Vox Book Club (The Spokesman-Review)

I'm going to try something a bit different for this section. Three quotes (posted below) stood out to me in this section. My question is this: How are these quotes related to each other, to the setting of the novel, and to the current state of the world?

"[Humans'] great skill is their capacity to escalate."

"There was no swaying [the crowd], squeezing it, or reasoning with it. You breathed with it, and you sang its songs. You waited for its fire."

"[Ludwig] was just an animal, hurt among the melee of his own kind, soon to be trampled by it."

Posted Jan. 7, 2009, 3:30 p.m.

In 2006, then-editor Steve Smith of The Spokesman-Review had the idea of starting a publication for an often forgotten audience: teenagers. The Vox Box was a continuation of the Vox, an all-student staffed newspaper published by The Spokesman-Review. High school student journalists who staffed the Vox made all content decisions as they learn about the trade of journalism. This blog's mission was to give students an opportunity to publish their voices. The Vox Box and the Vox wrapped up in June 2009, but you can follow former staffers' new blog at http://voxxiez.blogspot.com.