Inspired by an aphorism in the pages of this week’s New Yorker (Fran Lebowitz: “Soda is recreation—the summer house—of the poor”), and in memory of Paul Fussell, here are summer homes for everybody (that is, for all of the ten classes you can read about in Class).
Top out-of-sight: estate in Scotland
Upper: house in Ulster County
Upper middle: iphone
Middle: fifty shades of gray
High proletarian: Caramel Frappuccino
Mid-proletarian: android
Low proletarian: soda
Destitute: store-brand soda
Bottom out-of-sight: soccer*
X: McCarren Park
*At least in New York, where deportation, God Bless the place, is unlikely
