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From The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History, by Jonathan Franzen

The officer asked us if we knew that it was after one o'clock.
"Yes, we do know that," Manley said, stepping forward and squaring his
shoulders.  He had a forthright manner whose ironic hollowness no
adult, only peers, seemed able to detect.
		-- p. 101

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