the middle classes (back to veneto)

The middle classes
are sunless.
They have only two measures:
mankind and money,
they have utterly no reference to the sun.

As soon as you let people be your measure
you are middle-class and essentially non-existent.

Because, if the middle classes had no poorer people to be superior to
they would themselves at once collapse into nullity.
And if they had no upper class either to be inferior to
they wouldn't suddenly become themselves aristocratic,
they'd become nothing.
For their middleness is only an unreality separating two realities.

No sun, no earth,
nothing that trascends the bourgeois middlingness,
the middle classes are more meaningless
than money when the bank is broke


D. H. Lawrence