Pansies (Lawrence)/The Middle Classes
THE MIDDLE CLASSES
The middle classes
are sunless.
They have only two measures:
mankind and money,
they have utterly no reference to the sun.
are sunless.
They have only two measures:
mankind and money,
they have utterly no reference to the sun.
As soon as you let people be your measure
you are middle class and essentially non-existent.
Because, if the middle classes had no poorer people to be superior to
they would themselves at once collapse into nullity.
And if they had no upper classes either, to be inferior to,
they wouldn't suddenly become themselves aristocratic
they'd become nothing.
For their middleness is only an unreality separating two realities.
you are middle class and essentially non-existent.
Because, if the middle classes had no poorer people to be superior to
they would themselves at once collapse into nullity.
And if they had no upper classes either, to be inferior to,
they wouldn't suddenly become themselves aristocratic
they'd become nothing.
For their middleness is only an unreality separating two realities.
No sun, no earth
nothing that transcends the bourgeois middlingness,
the middle classes are more meaningless
than paper money when the bank is broke.
nothing that transcends the bourgeois middlingness,
the middle classes are more meaningless
than paper money when the bank is broke.