In this charming reboot of a classic kidlit gumshoe series our eponymous hero Wikipedia Brown solves thought crimes by

The truth is true Is a tautology The truth is untried and true Is an etiology

They can’t kick sand in your face if your head is al– ready in the sand

I was afraid of death which is to say afraid to live until I chose my hill to die on For in deciding where

They used to pay us A penny for our thoughts But then they realized We would pay them To think for us

Growing up was hard enough when we just had cliques not today’s clicks upon cliques

No one ever told the truth but not a one of us were liars because we always spoke exclusivel… in the future tense

Life is defined by failure But you can transcend failure If you die trying

The truth will set you free but consensus will get you academi… i.e., tenure

Secure in my authenticity I thought I’d avoided that trap which had ensnared so many of my g… the safety of ironic distance– until I realized that

Most importantly, survival depends… your curated self lacking all self… This is best accomplished when you… lack all self-awareness, with you and your curated self

Just as in tennis I play to my opponent’s level in relationships

The screen you’re looking at seven hours a day is actually a magnifying glass

My life was about to go down the drain but the drain was clogged

It’s capitalism after it shed its skin