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That's Us. A Little Highbrow. A Little Mundane.
From The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield--there's a great description of a minor character (the doctor's wife) in the book. It goes like this (page 104):
"The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it."
4 comments:
ohhh, thank GOODNESS! That story actually made me cry a little and just made me MAD MAD MAD. Why in the world would they take $49,000 from this dude? totally insane.
We know a little about the suspicion of laundered money. Whenever Axel and I move money between two different countries we always have to make sure it is $9999. Otherwise, we are red flagged. I guess that $1 makes all the difference.
Poor guy...
Yes I remember that story! Took them long enough!
I hate the fact that our government can be such BULLIES when we proclaim that this is the "home of the FREE".
Thanks for posting this.
Americans need to constantly be aware (and wary) of unchecked governmental powers....
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