Five hundred dollars a week for both y’all, plus free room and board. “I just need you to be reasonably smart and not from Gutshot, and you both fit the bill. Job duties include reading, remembering encyclopedias, novels, and poetry and memorizing the first ninety-nine digits of pi.33Īnd so every summer Colin went to smart-kid camp and with each passing year it became increasingly clear to him that he wasn’t qualified to do anything, which is what he told Hollis Wells. Requirements include at least fourteen years’ experience as a certified child prodigy, ability to anagram adeptly (and alliterate agilely), fluency in eleven languages. Huge, megalithic corporation seeks a talented, ambitious prodigy to join our exciting, dynamic Prodigy Division for summer job. One rarely comes across, for instance, the following want ad: But (a) summers were for smart-kid camp so that he could further his learning and (b) a real job would distract him from his real work, which was becoming an ever-larger repository of knowledge, and (c) Colin didn’t really have any marketable skills. Over the years, people had occasionally sought to employ Colin in a manner befitting his talents.
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