Gripping with Simeon
Sunday Column
Imagine, if you can, spending forty thousand dollars on a fridge. Forty. Thousand. According to a high-end retailer in Australia, they're selling truckloads of them right now.
The expression high-end surely gives an undue blush of respectability to grotesque consumerism.
Forty. Thousand. I didn't know such things existed until a few nights ago.
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