![]() ![]() I devoured Class, as well as Bad, which I considered the advanced, up-to-date version, and never looked at the world in the same way. “It’s even got some car stuff in there he talks about how people buy SUVs to look like they’re rich enough to have a country home. I was in my early teens, and had just discovered Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities, when my father suggested I read Paul Fussell’s Class. A new car magazine had to be read and not just scanned through for pretty pictures.Īnd so came one of the lessons that ended up changing how I viewed the world. My allowance was paid after chores and before a lesson on budgeting. A new song came with a quick history of Manchester 80’s New Wave, or Delta blues. ![]() ![]() A new addition to my vocabulary came with a lesson on the root word, and whether it came from Latin, or French or Greek. A credit to my parents (among many) they turned everything into a “teachable moment”. ![]()
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