7 Strange Things Stephen Colbert Just Bought South Carolina Students
4. $306 to escape the existential despair of a sad life
Mrs. Clark at North Charleston High School wants more books for her library. That’s hardly an exceptional request, but what makes it stands out is her explanation for why the books are necessary: to allow her students a brief respite from sad, sad lives.
“Life has a way of rearing its ugly head on occasion,” she says. “Many of my students have had difficult lives. They are able to lose themselves in a great book. My students enjoy reading books as an escape from everyday life.”
Fittingly, most of the books Clark chooses to “help them escape their lives” are fantasies of one form of another, such as Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices trilogy.
