If we cannot stop envying, it seems especially poignant that we should be constrained to spend so much of our lives envying the wrong things.
- Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
What is it you do, Mr. Dowd?
Well Harvey and I sit in the bars, and have a drink or two, play the juke box. And soon the faces of all the other people, they turn toward mine and they smile. And they’re saying, “We don’t know your name, mister, but you’re a very nice fella.”
Harvey and I warm ourselves in all these golden moments. We’ve entered as strangers. Soon we have friends. And they come over and they sit with us, and they drink with us, and they talk to us. They tell about the big, terrible things they’ve done, and the wonderful things they’ll do. Their hopes, and their regrets, their loves, and their hates. All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar.
And then, I introduce them to Harvey. And he’s bigger and grander than anything they offer me. And when they leave, they leave impressed.
The same people seldom come back. But that’s envy my dear. There’s a little bit of envy in the best of us. That’s too bad, isn’t it.
-Mary Chase, Harvey
Harvey and I warm ourselves in all these golden moments. We’ve entered as strangers. Soon we have friends. And they come over and they sit with us, and they drink with us, and they talk to us. They tell about the big, terrible things they’ve done, and the wonderful things they’ll do. Their hopes, and their regrets, their loves, and their hates. All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar.
And then, I introduce them to Harvey. And he’s bigger and grander than anything they offer me. And when they leave, they leave impressed.
The same people seldom come back. But that’s envy my dear. There’s a little bit of envy in the best of us. That’s too bad, isn’t it.
-Mary Chase, Harvey
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