[...] Fr how can the interviewee reconcile the support of his upbringing those coins represented with the seeming total evacuation of dignity in the work, that sense the speaker has that the job compromised his father's personhood, that "he brought his work home," in "the fact he wore in the men's room," which his "skull conformed to fit" (BI 90)? Is this work that exacts more human cost from a person than can ever be balanced by money? [...]