...brought nothing one wanted." In Claude's eyes money offers nothing but safety, the "perfect safety . . . required to kill all the best qualities in people and develop the mean ones." The realization of these immense dissatisfactions consumes Claude in the Lovely Creek section of the...

...wrong in Frankfort. Security is "what [is] the matter with everybody; . . . only perfect safety [is] required to kill all the best qualities in people and develop the mean ones" (86). Certainly that Victorian essence, so profound in Bayliss and in Enid, is what Claude struggles...

...thought that this security was what was the mattet with even-body: that onlv petfect safety was tequited to kill all the best qualities in people and develop the mean ones," The fatmets wife in "A Wagnet Matinee" had felt something deepet when, aftet het tew moments of exultation...

...is paralyzed by the pointlessness of an exchange economy stripped of its religious justifications: "He could not see the use of working for money, when...best qualities in people and develop the mean ones" (OO, p. 102). Lost in a purely instrumental world, a world in which people have become mechanical and...