last night we watched MARGOT AT THE WEDDING, and this morning I read this essay. these poor, miserable, over-educated, inbred bastards. doomed to loneliness. this whole stupid American Hologram has somehow convinced us that we are what we consume — and intellectuals buy into it just as much as anybody else. “You’ve never read Nabokov? Oh, I could never marry you.” Losers. A nation of losers.