Opal? Oh, puh-lease.

Do I have a story for you. So an overly ambitious young girl who will do anything to get into Harvard decides to write a novel about an overly ambitous young girl who will do anything to get into Harvard. Even though this should be fairly simple, since the novel is basically this overly ambitious young girl's life, she still can't manage to pull it off without "unintentionally" and "unconsciously" ripping off another author. I can't say I'm surprised though... bearing in mind some of the kids we went to high school with, are you?

The story as printed in the New York Times.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"She never talked of it--she went, punctually, directly. It was her instinct to go, and instinct like the swallows for the south, the artichokes for the sun, turning her infallibly to the human race, making her nest in its heart. And this, like all instincts, was a little distressing to people who did not share it... Some notion was in both of them about the ineffectiveness of action, the supremacy of thought."

Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse