Stuck. Not trying.
Doesn't know; doesn't want to know. Knows what he knows, if you know what he means.
Then the peculiar benchmark: the New Yorker, of all possible stupidities.
Yet that's his life. Militantly middlebrow, impossibly combined with snobbery.
What's his living?
Newspaper commentator.
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