Last night, folding the bath towel so the monogram would be in the right place (and after reading a piece on Rimbaud by Zabel) I wondered what I was doing here... I was born into no true class, and it was my decision, early in life, to insinuate myself into the middle class, like a spy, so that I would have an advantageous position of attack, but I seem now and then to have forgotten my mission and to have taken my disguises too seriously.
John Cheever, The Journals.
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