To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

Beggars market their incapacity.

In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.

I create my social existence by earning and spending.