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#TheNovel in Eekhoutstraat 1, #Bruges, serves a very decent #decaf #espresso—and you can order it also as #lungo (pictured) or even #ristretto, which requires some skill to prepare.

#Brugge #coffee

#TheNovel in Eekhoutstraat 1, #Bruges, serves a very decent #decaf #espresso—and you can order it also as #lungo (pictured) or even #ristretto, which requires some skill to prepare.

#Brugge #coffee

Why so much bullshit? Money?
> The characteristic work of the novel is to record the illusion that snobbery generates and to try to penetrate to the truth which, as the novel assumes, lies hidden beneath all the false appearances. #Money, #Snobbery the ideal of status, these become in themselves the objects of fantasy, the support of the fantasies of love, freedom, charm, power...
#LionelTrilling in the book, The #MoralObligation #ToBeIntelligent, essay,
#MannersMorals And #TheNovel

> .. #TheNovel is born with the appearance of money as a social element #money, the great solvent of the solid fabric of the old society, the great generator of illusion.. to say much the same thing, the novel is born in response to snobbery. #Snobbery is not the same thing as pride of class.. aristocratic pride was based ultimately on the ability to fight and administer.. pride of class may be thought of as today we think of pride of profession, toward which we are likely to be lenient.
#Novel