Structuring your whole afternoon as make-work so you can continue to mail pages to a typist is, yes, privileged. This fact works counter to the studied "just a

Structuring your whole afternoon as make-work so you can continue to mail pages to a typist is, yes, privileged. This fact works counter to the studied "just a dude out observing the fullness of humanity" vibe of the paragraph. So for me the piece is very unstable, tilting back and forth between these two poles. Perhaps that's why I remembered it across 20 years.