Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
Alexander TherouxBook-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.
Alexander TherouxWill I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
Alexander TherouxI hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.
Alexander TherouxThe particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.
Alexander TherouxBrent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.
Alexander Theroux