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  1. I have found that Masters of the Universe in NYC organize their lives so that they have truly minimal contact with the “little people.”

    F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.”

  2. Park Sloper, my son is annoyed I’m playing with his b’day gift too often – got him the iPad. he is starting to give me the stiff arm to the face to get his iPad back but the damn thing is pretty addictive (especially as I search & download the apps which I find are a ton better than the versions built for iphone & touch)

  3. Jackal,

    If you are still reading, you may have had an esophagal spasm. I had one of these once and went to the ER after a particularly overindulgent meal. Lots of chest pain and constricted breathing for an hour or two, then the whole thing eased again. Nothing medically to be done except freak out and test for all things coronary (negative, thank goodness).

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