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Entry: The Haughty Polloi Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_haughty_polloi#8396 Post contents: PS, here's one answer to my own rhetorical question, "how many of them actually ENJOY their material wealth, or their lives at all?" Taki mentioned F Scott Fitzgerald. He seldom enjoyed his life, and died at 44. His super-rich wife was a psychotic harpie and most of his putative friends were creeps. And even Hemingway, who was a wee bit more sensible about "the rich" than Fitzgerald, was another miserable man who, by his own choice, didn't outlive Fitzgerald by long. One of my favourite jokes: "Why did Ernest Hemingway cross the road?" "To die. In the rain. Alone." Sent at: 2008 07 23