January 13, 2012
Quote of the Week. “Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn’t, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.” —“Expectations,” John Lanchester, New Yorker, January 9, 2012. I loved every perfect sentence of this short story so much I read it again a few days later. EVEN THOUGH I was profoundly deflated by the ending. Then I did a little research and lo, there’s an entire novel coming forth! The wife is an especially revolting character. A piece of Damien Hirst “art” makes an appearance, though not the one shown above.

Quote of the Week.
“Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn’t, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.”
—“Expectations,” John Lanchester, New Yorker, January 9, 2012.

I loved every perfect sentence of this short story so much I read it again a few days later. EVEN THOUGH I was profoundly deflated by the ending. Then I did a little research and lo, there’s an entire novel coming forth!

The wife is an especially revolting character. A piece of Damien Hirst “art” makes an appearance, though not the one shown above.

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