Brown, Sidney E.

Hickman, Mary A.

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Journal of Teaching and Learning Volume 4 Issue 2 Article 5 1-1-1990 Dangerous Facts Jay Klokker Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.und.edu/tl-journal Recommended Citation Klokker, Jay (1990) "Dangerous Facts," Journal of Teaching and Learning: Vol. 4 : Iss. 2 , Article 5. Available at: https://commons.und.edu/tl-journal/vol4/iss2/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by UND Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Teaching and Learning by an authorized editor of UND Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact und.commons@library.und.edu. 30 Dangerous Facts When I try to explain to you exactly what I feel I remember the time I ran home from school crying because I thought everyone there could read minds. I'd been trying to show them the difference between the sailbacked reptile edapho-saurus and the similar, but fiercer dimetredon, when I real-ized something was wrong. They were listening, not to me, but to a part of my voice that I couldn't hear. I tried to distract them with dangerous facts: how many apple seeds it takes to kill a man and how to make a sleeping potion from urine. Imagine yourself, I said, lying in bed on the surface of a white dwarf star. Try lifting your finger. It weighs one thousand two hundred pounds. Now open your eyelids-if you can find them. Your brain, I said, is nothing but soup with chunks of bone in it. That's when the teacher sent me home with a note saying "Jay has a problem with peer inter-action." I wanted to ask my mother what kind of interaction this was, but I was afraid of making her lie. That night I couldn't get to sleep. I had to know the truth about every-thing. -Jay Klokker 

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