Bourgeois

Today, while working on his philosophy thesis in a coffee shop in a very affluent part of New England, a friend and co-student of the same expensive, exclusive, private liberal arts college I attend, was walking back to his table, which held among other things a copy of Karl Marx’s collected writings, when a woman, presumably unaware of the Marx volume in his possession, approached him to ask, “Excuse me, do you know how to spell ‘bourgeois’?”

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