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Middle Class
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He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram conductors. Did they know that they were only puppets dancing when money pulled the strings? You bet they didn’t. And if they did, what would they care? They were too busy being born, being married, begetting, working, dying. It mightn’t be a bad thing, if you could manage it, to feel yourself one of them, one of the ruck of men. Our civilizat
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― Keep the Aspidistra Flying
― Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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I have been back among fairy tales,” she says. “I do not quite understand, Alesha. Those gallant little boys! They are youth, and youth is always full of strangeness. Mr. Heritage! He is youth, too, and poetry, perhaps, and a soldier’s tradition. I think I know him... But what about Dickson? He is the petit bourgeois, the épicier, the class which the world ridicules. He is unbelievable.
“No,” is the answer. “You will not find him in Russia. He is what they call the middle-class, which we who w
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― Huntingtower
― Huntingtower
Why are Broadway tickets so expensive? Will the middle class get to see theater again? How do yo…more
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