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June 11, 2006:

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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