May 2012
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Overheard in a coffee shop in a wealthy college town: “Before he got the BMW, he was driving the Porsche every day to work. He felt embarrassed.”
In other words, he felt embarrassed about driving a luxury car to work, so he bought another, slightly cheaper luxury car.
I can usually repress and even ironize my Simmering Class Resentment, but not today.
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Like all their inabilities to communicate, this too had a virtuous motive.
– Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
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