Fiction writers from the lower classes write about the primordial filth from which they've physically escaped but from which they'll never mentally be able to leave behind. Like war veterans, people who've fought it out in the miasma of poverty and blue- collar hell can never get the stink out of their skins, try as they may. Just like people who haven't been to war can spot vets who have, middle-class people and the rich can spot people who've grown up poor, no matter what their position in life or the quality of their ...
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Fiction writers from the lower classes write about the primordial filth from which they've physically escaped but from which they'll never mentally be able to leave behind. Like war veterans, people who've fought it out in the miasma of poverty and blue- collar hell can never get the stink out of their skins, try as they may. Just like people who haven't been to war can spot vets who have, middle-class people and the rich can spot people who've grown up poor, no matter what their position in life or the quality of their designer suits. Those suits just don't fit right, and the neckties make them fidget and sweat. What the well-heeled authors and the working-class writers have in common is that they've been trained not to pronounce moral judgment.
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