One passage in Involve a Cow that was particularly striking was the story of the chlorine banquet where older students attempted to put chlorine into the banquet hall where the freshmen were located, but instead piped into the kitchen killing a cook, Henrietta Jackson. The story is written in a very mundane way. The author appears to attempt to downplay the severity of this incident by the way he tells it. The purpose of this is to perhaps pass this crime as a “prank.” This prank takes place near the beginning of Kronman’s second epoch in the name of secular humanism. As structure was slowly starting to dissipate in this epoch students antics needed to become increasingly unbelievable to warrant inclusion in the story. Thus, stones going through
