1. Player Piano
Day 5: An Anniversary, the Farm, a Haircut, and prepping for The Meadows

2. Journal
“You’ve got something the tests and machines will never be able to measure: you’re artistic. That’s one of the tragedies of our times, that no machine…can recognize that quality” (178). You have 10 minutes – Create!

3. Homestead
“If Paul were ever moved to be extremely cruel to her, the cruelest thing he could do, he knew, would be to point out to her why she hated as she did: if he hadn’t married her, this was where she’d be, what she’d be” (174).

4. The Anniversary
“I think it’s high time we got a completely new perspective, not on just our relationship to ourselves, but on our relationship to society as a whole” (175).

5. The Farm
“It doesn’t matter what you think…I’ve made up my mind to quit my job and live here. Do you understand? I’m going to quit” (183).

6. A Haircut
“Everything’s promotion. Ever stop to think about that? Everything you think you think because somebody promoted the ideas. Education—nothing but promotion” (203).