Everything you need to understand or teach Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases by Lars Gustafsson.
"Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases" by Swedish writer Lars Gustafsson, was first published in Sweden in 1981. Translated into English in 1986, it appeared in Stories of Happy People (Norton, 1986; in print). It can also be found in You've Got to Read This: Contemporary Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe, edited by Ron Hansen (New York, 1994).
"Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases" is the story of a severely mentally retarded boy who is sent...