Sublime

She built an asset from nothing to something. While she never enjoyed “passive income,” the asset was

I intend to draw Miss Trixie out rather shortly; I suspect that this Medusa of capitalism has many valuable insights and more than one pithy observation to offer.

garrulous,

She was smarter than him and they both knew it. It wasn’t just school—Lane Dean was in accounting and business and did all right, he was hanging in there. She was a year older, she was twenty, but it was also more—she had always seemed to Lane to be on good terms with her life in a way age could not account for. His mother had put it that she knew

An economics professor, four years Jane’s senior.

Paul Larkin n’avait jamais eu de chance. Rien de ce qu’il touchait n’aboutissait. Rien n’échouait vraiment, mais rien ne réussissait vraiment non plus. C’était un homme d’affaires, mais il était incapable de rester bien longtemps dans la même activité. Pour l’heure, il dirigeait tant bien que mal une petite usine qui fabriquait du matériel pour les

we insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know. Her finely-touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength,

At the Dinky Donut, outside town, Bob Pardee sat quietly as the family ate and talked. The soft pink golfer’s face had begun to droop from his skull. His flesh seemed generally to sag, giving him the hang-dog look of someone under strict orders to lose weight. His hair was expensively cut and layered, a certain amount of color combed in, a certain

raconteur?