Travis: "Janine had nailed it. People hate their cars. Daddy doesn't come proudly home with a new one any more. ... We hate our cars, Detroit. Those of us who can possibly get along without them do so very happily. ... they are expensive, murderous machines, and they manage to look glassily contemptuous of of the people who own them. A (broken) car is something that (made Janine) whomp (her) youngest kid too hard and then feel ashamed...".
This McGeeism is available in its insightful entirety in Pale Gray for Guilt, p. 15 of the Fawcett printings.
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I thought Lileks remark that what GM needed to do was just make 57 Bel Airs was pure genius until I discovered yesterday that someone WAS making new 57 Bel Airs! The only fly in the buttermilk was that they cost 75K...
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