... time until Bart, exasperated and bored, wanders off; it was a small consolation that the hamster was also unable to obtain a cupcake - thought the hamster desisted, abandoning hope after the first try, quickly forming the mental association between the cupcakes and pain. Bart, like John Grady in All the Pretty Horses, was thrown into an enigmatic situation: the cupcakes were a hazard, an arbitrary circumstance injected into Bart's sphere of existence, which ... was influential enough to change Bart's life, even if it was as insignificant as a tray of cupcakes diverting Bart's path acros...

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