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Thu 26 Apr, 2007 07:25 am
I come of good stock?-real estate, mineral water, oxygen, matchbooks: earth, water, air and fire, the old elementals of the material universe, a bellybutton economics, a linchpin one.
what stock mean? stock or birth?
what does bellybutton economics mean?
i don't understand the structure.
"Stock" in this case would mean his parents and their parents and back for generations - his geneology.
By "bellybutton" economics I suppose he means that he received these things by luck of being born into a family that had these things. He inherited real estate, mineral water, oxygen, and matchbooks.
In other words he is one of those self-commending presumptuous yuppie writers who is trying to convince the reader (and himself) that he had a unique upbringing (and should be worthy of a Pulitzer), by redefining sentence structure with his God-like artistic license.
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