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Purity in Oakland

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terms
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notes

Purity is given the chance to quit her shitty telemarketing job and work for Andreas Wolf

Franzen, J. (2015). Purity in Oakland. In Franzen, J. Purity. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 1-74

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Nobody had warned her that the figure to pay attention to when she was being interviewed by Igor, the head of consumer outreach at Renewable Solutions, was not the "thirty or forty thousand dollars" in commissions that he foresaw her earning in her very first year but the $21,000 base salary he was offering, or that a salesman as persuasive as Igor might also be skilled at selling shit jobs to unsuspecting twenty-one-year-olds.

—p.7 by Jonathan Franzen 7 years, 5 months ago

Nobody had warned her that the figure to pay attention to when she was being interviewed by Igor, the head of consumer outreach at Renewable Solutions, was not the "thirty or forty thousand dollars" in commissions that he foresaw her earning in her very first year but the $21,000 base salary he was offering, or that a salesman as persuasive as Igor might also be skilled at selling shit jobs to unsuspecting twenty-one-year-olds.

—p.7 by Jonathan Franzen 7 years, 5 months ago

(adjective) marked by or given to censure; severely critical of others

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"Did I look censorious?" Igor said, batting his eyelashes.

—p.9 by Jonathan Franzen
uncertain
7 years, 5 months ago

"Did I look censorious?" Igor said, batting his eyelashes.

—p.9 by Jonathan Franzen
uncertain
7 years, 5 months ago
10

From somewhere, in college, Pip had gotten the idea--her mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by--that the height of civilization was to spend Sunday morning reading an actual paper copy of the Sunday New York Times at a café.

—p.10 by Jonathan Franzen 7 years, 5 months ago

From somewhere, in college, Pip had gotten the idea--her mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by--that the height of civilization was to spend Sunday morning reading an actual paper copy of the Sunday New York Times at a café.

—p.10 by Jonathan Franzen 7 years, 5 months ago

(verb) kiss

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a young gentleman with whom she's been osculating on the front porch

—p.13 by Jonathan Franzen
strange
7 years, 5 months ago

a young gentleman with whom she's been osculating on the front porch

—p.13 by Jonathan Franzen
strange
7 years, 5 months ago
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Self-pity seeped into her, a conviction that for no one but her was sex so logistically ungainly, a tasty fish with so many small bones.

—p.15 by Jonathan Franzen 7 years, 5 months ago

Self-pity seeped into her, a conviction that for no one but her was sex so logistically ungainly, a tasty fish with so many small bones.

—p.15 by Jonathan Franzen 7 years, 5 months ago

(noun) the act of entering; entrance / (noun) the power or liberty of entrance or access

15

stuffing steel wool into every conceivable ingress point

(to keep out mice)

—p.15 by Jonathan Franzen
uncertain
7 years, 5 months ago

stuffing steel wool into every conceivable ingress point

(to keep out mice)

—p.15 by Jonathan Franzen
uncertain
7 years, 5 months ago
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"[...] I think only maybe your life revolves too much about men, a little bit, right now."

Pip stared in amazement at this fresh insult.

—p.25 by Jonathan Franzen 7 years, 5 months ago

"[...] I think only maybe your life revolves too much about men, a little bit, right now."

Pip stared in amazement at this fresh insult.

—p.25 by Jonathan Franzen 7 years, 5 months ago

(adjective) exhibiting properties with different values when measured in different directions

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the anisotropy of gendered relationships

—p.27 by Jonathan Franzen
unknown
7 years, 5 months ago

the anisotropy of gendered relationships

—p.27 by Jonathan Franzen
unknown
7 years, 5 months ago
28

[...] depending on the regulatory weather (not climate but weather, for it changed seasonally and sometimes seemingly hourly) [...]

—p.28 by Jonathan Franzen 7 years, 5 months ago

[...] depending on the regulatory weather (not climate but weather, for it changed seasonally and sometimes seemingly hourly) [...]

—p.28 by Jonathan Franzen 7 years, 5 months ago
45

[...] Their theory was that the technology-driven gains in productivity and the resulting loss of manufacturing jobs would inevitably result in better wealth distribution, including generous payments to most of the population for doing nothing, when Capital realised that it could not afford to pauperize the consumers who bought its robot-made products. Unemployed consumers would acquire an economic value equivalent to their lost value as actual laborers, and could join forces with the people still working in the service industry, thereby creating a new coalition of labor and the permanently unemployed, whose overwhelming size would compel social change.

part of a labor utopia discussion among some nerds, humorously juxtaposed with Purity doing all the actual cooking labour

—p.45 by Jonathan Franzen 7 years, 5 months ago

[...] Their theory was that the technology-driven gains in productivity and the resulting loss of manufacturing jobs would inevitably result in better wealth distribution, including generous payments to most of the population for doing nothing, when Capital realised that it could not afford to pauperize the consumers who bought its robot-made products. Unemployed consumers would acquire an economic value equivalent to their lost value as actual laborers, and could join forces with the people still working in the service industry, thereby creating a new coalition of labor and the permanently unemployed, whose overwhelming size would compel social change.

part of a labor utopia discussion among some nerds, humorously juxtaposed with Purity doing all the actual cooking labour

—p.45 by Jonathan Franzen 7 years, 5 months ago
60

Hoping this would make him LOL again

the tragedy of this girl trying to act like she doesn't care what men think of her but, in this passage, is desperately trying to get this older man to like her (it gets even worse when you later find out that he has deliberately targeted her for his own twisted scheme)

—p.60 by Jonathan Franzen 7 years, 5 months ago

Hoping this would make him LOL again

the tragedy of this girl trying to act like she doesn't care what men think of her but, in this passage, is desperately trying to get this older man to like her (it gets even worse when you later find out that he has deliberately targeted her for his own twisted scheme)

—p.60 by Jonathan Franzen 7 years, 5 months ago

(noun) unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition; rashness recklessness / (noun) a rash or reckless act

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Too giddy with temerity to eat

—p.62 by Jonathan Franzen
uncertain
7 years, 5 months ago

Too giddy with temerity to eat

—p.62 by Jonathan Franzen
uncertain
7 years, 5 months ago