Friday, January 22, 2010 - He had not resented them
And now there were the...
He had not resented them
And now there were the beginnings of resentmentThe General's point was clear enoughHe was an officer, and in functioning as an officer for a long enough time he would assume, whether he wanted to or not, the emotional prejudices of his classThe General was reminding him that he belonged to that classHe remembered Cummings's pale baleful eyes staring at him blankly, and then the inexplicable wink"Have to keep you happy, Robert It was a little clearer nowHearn had known ever since he had been with the General that if he wanted to he could easily rise to a field officer's rank by the end of the warAnd there was an ambition in him which responded to that, an ambition he distrustedCummings recognized it, Cummings had effectively told him then that if he wanted to, if he was strong enough to overcome the distastes and prejudices he felt toward officers, cheap mulberry handbags he could satisfy that ambition
Understand your class and work within its limitsMarxist lesson with a reverse twist
It disturbed Hearn deeplyHe had been born in the aristocracy of the wealthy midwestern family, and although he had broken with them, had assumed ideas and concepts repugnant to them, he had never really discarded the emotional luggage of his first eighteen yearsThe guilts he made himself feel, the injustices that angered him were never genuineHe kept the sore alive by continually rubbing it, and he knew itHe knew also at this moment that out of all the reasons why he had begun to quarrel with Conn in officers' mess, one of the vital ones had been that he was afraid of not really caring enough about what Conn was sayingIt was true of too many of his reactionsAnd since his direct self-interest could only move him back toward the ideas of his father, there was d
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