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“pushing junk is a constant strain on the nerves. sooner or later, you get the ‘copper jitters,’ and everybody looks like a cop. people moving about in the subway seem to be edging closer so they can grab you before you have a chance to throw away the junk.”

“the american upper-middle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. he is largely delineated by what he is not. gains went further. he was not mere negative. he was positively invisible; a vagud respectable presence. there is a certain kind of ghost that can only materialize with the aid of a sheet or other piece of cloth to give it outline. gaines was like that. he materialized in someone else’s overcoat.”