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“Speaking about the long reach of an underclass upbringing brings a familiar feeling of saying too much. You might already know this feeling. I'd describe it like this. I'm in the company of peers or colleagues, and something will come to me relevant to the conversation, which is personal to me. Not something I read or heard. Other people of course discuss intimate details of their lives, but there's a different category of sharing which happens when what is recounted is not recognisable to the experience of those hearing it. Saying it brings the risk of being taken as lowering the tone somehow, unsurprising given the spatial metaphor of being underclass. Not saying it is an almost negligible indignity, and the more sensible option in most cases.
– Adam Nasser Benmakhlouf”
― Kate Pasola, Bread Alone: What happens when we run out of working-class writers?