Pansies (Lawrence)/The Middle Classes

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THE MIDDLE CLASSES
The middle classesare sunless.They have only two measures:mankind and money,they have utterly no reference to the sun.
As soon as you let people be your measureyou are middle class and essentially non-existent.Because, if the middle classes had no poorer people to be superior tothey would themselves at once collapse into nullity.And if they had no upper classes either, to be inferior to,they wouldn't suddenly become themselves aristocraticthey'd become nothing.For their middleness is only an unreality separating two realities.
No sun, no earthnothing that transcends the bourgeois middlingness,the middle classes are more meaninglessthan paper money when the bank is broke.
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