AUGUST 2007

195. “one of the people upon whom nothing is lost”

H. James

But what if the cost of being one of those people is that you yourself get lost yourself? Maybe such a lethal price tag can be avoided by careful shopping. I’m not by nature a careful shopper myself, but you try to learn what you need to learn before the learning comes too late.

Note: “I want so little—no new clothes—and I will learn what everything costs” (Eliot, Middlemarch).