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lee

the shuddering lees of huge semis

i think this is the right meaning?

—p.107 Or Things I Did Not Do or Say (105) by Benjamin Kunkel
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my neighbor beat on his wife inspo/dialogue

In 1994, I was 19 years old. I’d dropped out of college. I had a job parking cars at a hospital in downtown Louisville. I lived in a one-room apartment and my neighbor beat on his wife. He beat her pretty loud.

One night I called the cops. The switchboard operator said: Is he still whipping her?…

—p.77 John Thomas and Lady Jane (77) missing author
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the desire not to have to get rid of class difference

For neoliberals, in other words, it’s prejudice not poverty that counts as the problem, and if, at the heart of the liberal imagination, as Trilling understood it, was the desire not to have to think about class difference, then at the heart of the neoliberal imagination is the desire not to have t…

—p.76 The Neoliberal Imagination (69) missing author
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anodyne

utterly anodyne texts

—p.75 The Neoliberal Imagination (69) missing author
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right-wing egalitarianism: Respect the Poor inspo/anti-capitalism

And just as the benefits of status presume the irrelevance of material inequality, so do its injustices. When you think your real problem is not that people have more money than you but that the people who have more money condescend to you, your problem is status. And when the solution to your prob…

—p.74 The Neoliberal Imagination (69) missing author