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league of pathologically self-involved
Friday, December 7 2007
Probably in response to all the ferment apple cider, I woke up feeling a little unhealthy this morning. I had a headache had an unusual new cough that produced marble-sized chunks of phlegm from somewhere deep in my lungs. But the moment I got out of bed I started feeling better and I was good for code writing the rest of the day. Towards evening, though, the hangover hit its peak (as it always seems to do at that time) and I wondered if I could keep going. But somehow I rallied and stayed up working until late.
By darkness the most dispiriting thing I faced was a style article in the New York Times about men who give diamonds to their wives as consolation for the ordeal of childbearing. I couldn't read more than a tiny bit of it before I started feeling physically ill, but it was enough to convince me its publication was part of DeBeers' ongoing effort to keep diamonds relevant among people with money. It's stylish these days for people to talk ignorantly about "offsetting" their environmental damage, but this is the exact opposite. Not that anyone can ever offset the ecological destruction inherent in the birth of another human being, but paying someone thousands to dig up a mountain looking for rare gemstones in celebration is in its own league of pathologically self-involved.
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