When I taught remedial English in the East End, I had my
students compose their own best- and worst-case scenarios for ten years later.
The nightmares were fabulous: lush with fantastic fears, hilarious with
misadventure. The pipedreams were all the same: a string of products and brand
names. They read like mail-order catalogs. My students’ visions of the Good
Life were so vapid and depressing that you could have got the two assignments
confused.
— Lionel Shriver in her novel “The New Republic”
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