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Structuring your whole afternoon as make-work so you can continue to mail pages to a typist is, yes, privileged.

This fact works counter to the studied "just a dude out observing the fullness of humanity" vibe of the paragraph.

So for me the piece is very unstable, tilting back and forth between these two poles. Perhaps that's why I remembered it across 20 years.




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