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Thank you We sneak in pride and property Ah la

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shmoop pride and property sounds a lot like a lost

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jane austen novel Well speaking of jane austen novels booker

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t redington is an incredibly avid reader He once read

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the sound and the fury cover to cover over breakfast

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Well okay maybe he on ly read the covers but

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cut him some slack and yeah that's a tough book

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Booker loves reading the classics because they highlight the concepts

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of romanticism that have always attracted him He loves the

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idea that all that deep intangible stuff wins out over

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more material concerns Like how ebeneezer scrooge it's counting his

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coinage but realizes in the end after a terrifying supernatural

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encounter that love kindness and generosity are where it's really

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at Well yeah that stuff is terrific but what booker

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doesn't realize is that how one treats one's own property

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reflects on that person in a totally not shallow way

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for example because booker demonstrates a complete disregard for all

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items Physical bedroom is a disaster area anyone who's ever

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come over and see It has been appalled and terrified

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and it's immediately drawn away from booker it's not because

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they're superficial folks who could only be friends with clean

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rooms people booker's room exhibits a lack of organization and

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cleanliness and propriety and a lack of concern about the

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idea that someone might trip over his underwear pile and

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bump their head on the desk Olle pretty valid points

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plus you should see booker's books dogeared like crazy covers

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and pages bent and wrinkled water damaged And what is

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that smell coming from them Maybe we'd rather not know

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Well those who know about booker's love of books are

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understandably confused What kind of respect is that Show the

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object of one's affection He wouldn't treat a significant other

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that way would he Would he Well maybe he would

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could be a while before booker goes to a high

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school dance and then there's the issue of voters Clothing

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hasn't done laundry since Well okay ever his mom does

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the honors occasionally but she's been trying to take a

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hands off approach lately so booker learns his lesson hasn't

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exactly been working so he stinks to high heaven even

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higher Maybe people avoid coming anywhere near him and that

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makes it awfully hard to make friends and or pursue

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Any sort of romantic engagements and again can you blame

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him No one wants to spend time with a human

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being who forces them to come equipped with clothes pins

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Hopefully booker will read a book one day on a

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personal hygiene or how to take responsibility for one's belongings

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or howto identify mold well In the meantime though until

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he figures out the importance of taking pride in his

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own properties probably gonna have a rough time of it 00:02:29.642 --> [endTime] You can ask anna karina to homecoming

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