β Scribed by Eula Biss
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
βMy adult life can be divided into two distinct parts,β Eula Biss writes, βthe time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.β Having just purchased her first home, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchangesβin libraries and laundromats, over barstools and backyard fencesβshe examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by the New York Times as a writer who βadvances from all sides, like a chess player,β Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury, of accumulation and consumption, of the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to BeyoncΓ© to Pokemon, Biss asks, of both herself and her class, βIn what have we invested?β
Work -- Social aspects
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Beckett. Let me count the ways I loathe him. 1.Heβs the bane of my existence. 2.A thorn in my side. 3. Iβm pretty sure heβs the devil in disguise Or he at least has him on speed-dial. So why am I standing here, bouquet in hand, about to become his wife? He calls it a business proposition
Beckett. Let me count the ways I loathe him.1. He's the bane of my existence. 2. A thorn in my side. 3. I'm pretty sure he's the devil in disguise Or he at least has him on speeddial. So why am I standing here, bouquet in hand, about to become his wife? He calls it a business proposition. I call i