Given the narrator's life-long search for his true identity, the narrator's realization, which he attempts to share with Mr. Norton asks him for directions but doesn't recognize him as the young man he once identified as the keeper of his destiny. The narrator's accidental meeting with Mr. He reiterates his stance, "I'm invisible, not blind." Despite the torture he has been forced to endure, he is still stupidly alive, which suggests that living in a world that denies an individual basic human rights is a fate worse than death. The narrator's remark regarding his "belated appreciation of the crude joke that had kept me running" reveals his enhanced emotional maturity, as does his struggle to come to terms with the meaning of his grandfather's advice. Although the world around him has not changed significantly, the narrator's attitude toward life and his perspective concerning normal versus abnormal behavior have changed dramatically, because he is now a veteran of the race war. Recalling the narrator's initial encounter with the veterans at the Golden Day, in light of his own experiences he is likely to be more sympathetic and understanding of their situation at this point in his life than he was as a naïve young college student. Without this knowledge, labeling him "crazy" and simply discounting or dismissing his remarks would be the greater inclination. He has also achieved a clarity of vision that enables him to see things from a different perspective.Īfter getting to know him on a more personal level as a unique individual instead of as a nameless, anonymous black man, the reasons behind his ramblings are understandable. Resuming his reflections on the meaning of his life that he began in the Prologue, the narrator, having survived numerous traumatic experiences, including the madness of the Harlem riot, can now reflect on his life with a detached objectivity that he was unable to achieve before he realized that, through his imagination, he has the power to transform and transcend reality. The narrator considers coming out of hibernation and facing the world once again, reasoning that "even an invisible man has a socially responsible role to play." ![]() Having had time to reflect on his life, he has decided that reality exists in the mind. In the Epilogue, the narrator speaks to us from his underground hideout again.
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![]() We have also tried mixing some mustard and honey together and heating the mixture slightly in the microwave before pouring it over the tenderloin.Ĭonsider serving it with a side of Chunky Apple Sauce that can be found on this site. We have used something as simple as drizzling pure maple syrup over the meat. Some simple but tasty options include adding a sauce to drizzle over the meat before serving. It can easily be dressed up to impress your guests for a special occasion. To complete the meal just add the vegetable or salad of your choosing. Instant Pot Pork Tenderloin and Rice is a quick meal solution during the week. Then I removed the trivet and fluffed up the rice with a fork. I transferred the cooked pork tenderloin to a cutting board. Once the Instant Pot was done cooking I allowed it to do a Natural Release for 12 minutes before turning the steam release handle to the venting position and removing the lid. Then I placed the lid on the Instant Pot, turned the steam release handle to the sealing position and set the Instant Pot to Pressure Cook High for 3 minutes. I did not stir.Īfter adding the rice I placed the trivet in the Pot and arranged the pork tenderloin on top of it. Next I quickly rinsed and drained some long grain rice with water before I sprinkled it over the chicken broth. It is a very important step when using an Instant Pot so that you will avoid the “Burn” message when the Pot is coming up to pressure. This means I carefully scraped off any brown bits that were sticking to the bottom of the Pot. Next I added the chicken broth and used it to deglaze the Pot. When the meat was browned on both sides I removed it from the Pot and set it aside. Then I turned the Instant Pot to the saute function and browned the tenderloin on both sides. You can experiment with different rubs that suit your own taste. I cut the tenderloin in half before rubbing it with some olive oil, paprika and black pepper. My tenderloin was about 1 3/4 to 2 pounds. The first step to making Instant Pot Pork Tenderloin and Rice wasto prepare the pork tenderloin for browning in the Instant Pot. Printable Recipe Card with a Full List of Ingredients and Instructions is Located at the Bottom of the Post.īe sure to read through the entire post so that you don’t miss out on any important tips and tricks! You may like to make gravy or a sauce to dress up your meal. ![]() Instant Pot Pork Tenderloin and rice is a quick meal solution during the week.Īdd a side salad or vegetables to complete your meal. Remove from pot and let rest for about 5 minutes.Instant Pot Pork Tenderloin and Rice is a simple meal that can be dressed up easily to suit any special occasion. When cycle is complete let naturally release for 12 minutes. Add the pork chops directly to the liquid, secure the lid, close the seal and pressure cook for 7 minutes. Then, add the Worcestershire sauce and Liquid Smoke. This step is simply scraping all the bits off the bottom. Use a wooden spoon to “deglaze” the bottom of the pot. Press cancel to stop the saute mode and add 1 cup of chicken broth to the pot. Once the pork chops are a beautiful golden brown, remove from the pot and set on a plate. That brown sugar may char a bit, but that’s ok. When it’s good and hot, add the pork chops and brown each side for about 1-2 minutes. Then, with your Instant Pot setting on saute (high), melt a tablespoon of butter. Start with a simple seasoning on both sides of the pork chops of salt, pepper, onion powder, paprika and brown sugar. Not only are they easy to come by at the grocery store, but they simply are the best thickness for pressure cooking. I’ve found the best boneless pork chops for the Instant Pot are one inch thick. Sounds simple enough, right? Well after a dozen or so attempts, i’ve finally got down the perfect recipe. So I set out to try and make pork chops how they really should be – browned on the outside, juicy and delicious on the inside. I’ve tried several pork chop recipes in the Instant Pot but honestly, have only had mediocre results. Quite simply the best boneless pork chops i’ve ever made. One inch thick, juicy, tender and delicious boneless pork chops made in your Instant Pot. ![]() In general, the presentation of the skill trees and upgrading weapons is easy to follow even without a tutorial. Skill trees will enable new abilities and offer upgrades for Chai’s weapons. Eventually, I found that experiencing an entire story through rhythm becomes redundant.Ĭhai has several skill trees that the player can upgrade by spending gears that are earned from exploring Hi-Fi Rush’s colorful and cartoonish environments. This style of gameplay is extremely engaging for the first several hours, but the novelty wears off shortly after the first boss fight. Platforms will present themselves and vanish on every other quarter note while Chai’s walk cycle is always in sync. The environment is dynamic and changes according to the beat. For example, while in combat, if the player’s button presses match up with the rhythm of the background music, attacks combine with each other and become more powerful. Combat, platforming, exploration, and puzzles all flawlessly incorporate rhythm and timing. Gameplay in Hi-Fi Rush at first comes off as incredibly innovative, but the repetition eventually makes the charm fade. Even if he’s not a perfectly written character, playing as Chai is still a delight. His character at times, can come off as a cliche “loveable idiot” due to his arrogant demeanor and energetic enthusiasm centered on the lofty dream of becoming a rockstar. Despite this, I often found that Chai was difficult to relate to. With the help of his sidekick, Peppermint, who regularly takes the form of a cat, he discovers that the experiment in which he participated is actually part of an antagonistic corporation’s ambiguous evil plot.įull of slapstick humor and witty banter, the dialogue, and progression of the story are engaging and easy to follow. Due to a defect of an experiment meant to provide him some income, Chai finds himself transformed into a cyborg that connects with the world around him through rhythm. ![]() The narrative of Hi-Fi Rush centers on a young man named Chai whose entire personality revolves around his dream of becoming a rockstar. ![]() With its cartoonish art style, unique gameplay, sense of humor, and absolutely stellar soundtrack, there are hours of fun to be found in Hi-Fi Rush. Despite its reputation for developing such dark and horror-themed games, Tango Gameworks’ Hi-Fi Rush works surprisingly well. Vibrant and colorful, it is a surprise that this is the same studio that brought us games like Ghostwire Tokyo. During Microsoft’s Xbox showcase, Tango Gameworks and Bethesda Softworks surprised everyone with the sudden announcement and release of Hi-Fi Rush, their new rhythm-based action-adventure game. ![]() ![]() Without this process, URLs and other forms of web data could be misinterpreted or corrupted, leading to errors or security risks. URL encoding is vital for maintaining the integrity and readability of data transmitted over the internet. It’s also important to note that URLs that only differ by whether a reserved character is percent-encoded or appears literally are typically considered different unless it’s established that the reserved character in question has no reserved purpose. In the query part of a URI (the part after a ? character), for example, / is considered a reserved character but doesn’t usually need to be percent-encoded unless the specific URI scheme dictates otherwise. However, not all reserved characters need to be encoded in all contexts. For instance, if / needs to be in a path segment, it must be represented as %2F or %2f instead. When such a reserved character needs to be used for a different purpose, it must be percent-encoded. For example, the forward slash ( /) is used to separate different parts of a URL. Reserved characters have special meanings in certain contexts. The characters in a URL are either reserved or unreserved. It is essential for preparing data for HTML form submission with content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded and is widely used within the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) set, which includes both Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and Uniform Resource Name (URN). The importance of URL encoding is evident in various aspects of web development and internet communication. Always validate and sanitize your inputs, whether they are URL-encoded or not. However, it’s also crucial to consider potential security risks, as decoding URLs can potentially lead to injection attacks if not handled carefully. This ensures that the data is correctly interpreted. It’s important to use URL decoding when processing received data that may have been URL-encoded. In terms of implementation, many programming languages offer built-in functions for URL decoding: Using our earlier example: the percent-encoded string %40 would be decoded to the character, because 40 is the hexadecimal representation of 64, which is the ASCII value for the character. The URL decoder then converts this byte (expressed in hexadecimal format) back into the corresponding ASCII character.This sequence represents a single byte in the ASCII character set. If it encounters a sequence starting with a percent sign ( %), it treats the following two characters as hexadecimal digits.If it encounters a regular character, it simply keeps it as it is.The URL decoder scans the encoded string from left to right.It involves converting the percent-encoded strings back into their original form. URL decoding, also known as percent decoding, is essentially the reverse process of URL encoding. We then precede the hex value with percent sign, which gives us the final URL encoded value of %40. The ASCII value of in decimal is 64, which when converted to hexadecimal comes out to be 40. That’s why we also refer to URL encoding as percent encoding.įor instance, let’s look at how to URL encode the character To encode we first convert it into a sequence of bytes using its ASCII value. The percent sign is used as an escape character. Then each byte is represented by two hexadecimal digits preceded by a percent sign ( %) - (e.g. The tool first converts each reserved, unprintable, or non-ASCII character to one or more bytes. Our URL encoding and decoding tool allows you to input a standard URL, and then it will provide you with a UTF-8 encoded version, using ASCII characters. This is why it’s also referred to as percent encoding. URL encoding works by converting each character to one or more bytes, and each byte is then represented by two hexadecimal digits preceded by a percent sign ( %). URLs, for instance, can only contain ASCII alphanumeric characters and some safe characters like hyphen ( -), underscore ( _), tilde ( ~), and dot (. It involves converting characters, particularly those that are reserved, unprintable, or non-ASCII, into a format that can be transmitted over the web. ![]() URL encoding, also known as percent encoding, is a crucial technique for ensuring the correct transmission of data over the internet. ![]() Encoded URL Type or paste an encoded value into the text area above and the text will be Decoded as you type What is URL encoding? ![]() Purchase and equip your first Special Attack. You can buy these upgrades with gears in the shop. Increase your chip slots to the maximum capacity. They are not required to upgrade your chips, but does cost more Gears. You also need to find Broken Armstrong Circuits to be able to purchase them in the shop. Purchase and equip your first upgrade chip.Ĭhips are extremely useful and getting that max unlock will allow a lot of customization. This is a list of achievements that can be obtained through upgrades found on almost every level or by using the shop. There is only seven you have to do it to and all of them can be found on Track 10 if you want to attempt it all at once. Do this on every enemy that's not a non-boss and this will unlock. Rhythm Parry Attacks are those attacks from big enemies that knock you down and require you to parry their blows. Perfectly parry every non-boss enemy's Rhythm Parry attack. I saw all those hits coming a measure away! Sucessfully parry with perfect timing 200 times.ĭefeated your first enemy with a Rhythm Parry Attack. Getting Directional Parry would help later since it gives you i-frames with certain chips. You will obtain the ability to parry in Track 3. Sucessfully parry with perfect timing 15 times. You can either hit the light or medium attack to finish the beat-hit. ![]() You have to time the circles to overlap to complete a beat hit. You will probably get several of them after beating the game once and all of them when you finish the difficulty related ones.īeat-hits appear at the end of a successful combo. I completed both of these on Track 6 because it was short and simple but you can pick any and the method would still work.Īll of these are grind achievements. Tip: You can save scum these if you really want. (Any difficulty.)įinish a stage without taking any damage. I hit things with a guitar really well.įinish a stage with a S rank for every Chorus. These next two can be done on any difficulty. Not only is this hardest difficulty, you also have to keep your Rhythm Meter above D or else you die. The only way to unlock this is to beat the game. I think I deserve some praise, here!įinish the game and complete every level on the Hard difficulty.įinish the game and complete every level on the Very Hard difficulty.įinish the game and complete every level on the Rhythm Master difficulty. Remember to clear each stage in its respective difficulty for the achievement.įinish the game completing every level on the Easy difficulty.įinish the game and complete every level on the Normal difficulty. After beating the game, you can select any stage or difficulty you would like to replay. The higher the difficulty, the more damage the enemies will do to you and the tighter the windows to execute the beats for combos. But play whatever difficulty you would like to experience. I would rather start on Normal or Hard for the first playthrough, so I can use Easy to easily clear the other Wall of Fame stuff without having problems. There are 4 difficulties you can start with and 1 that you unlock after beating the game once. ![]() Overall I wouldn't say its horribly difficult since by the time you attempt these modes you are a lot stronger, have access to more chips, and hopefully a better understanding of the game. Most of the time it's just replaying every level again on different difficulties, S-Ranking them, and finishing the Wall of Fame. It all depends on how quickly you finish on the harder difficulties like Rhythm Master and finishing the Rhythm Tower TWICE. The average time it would take to 100% would probably be around 50 to 60ish hours. So it's a good idea to check your Wall of Fame on what you are missing. Most of them are finding stuff or just doing the same action for X amount of times. One of the achievements require you to complete the Wall of Fame (The big board at the hangout.) It's basically your in-game achievements that give you rewards and some of these are tied to steam achievements. (One of them is a unlock which requires you to beat the game.) Also I used Easy difficulty for getting those no-hit boss runs, but you can play any difficulty you desire since later you'll unlock level select. I recommend starting on either Normal or Hard if you can't get used to the feeling right away and you will get upgrades later so it makes the other difficulties easier. This game has no missable achievements since you can just select the levels again, though it does require multiple playthroughs because of the difficulties and requires you to backtrack anyway for other missed content. ![]() ![]() This means that it will offset original sticker color based on your currently selected color and the value entered into the Spray Variations. The Sticker Spray color is adjusted using a percentage value to the left (negative) or right (positive) on the color picker. The Sticker Spray color can be randomized or controlled using any of the different options in the Spray Variations panel like stylus pressure, randomness, tilt, or canvas position. The Custom Brush dab colors can be randomized by hue and luminance and can pick up color from existing paint. You don’t need to use all the different options, as long as your sticker spray has an alpha (opacity) and a size (scale).īoth tools allow more advanced color customization. The different properties will multiply, so setting a base and a random value will limit the randomness around the base value. size, hue, order of stickers, opacity) and then set how you want them to respond to specific properties (for example, a base or random value, pen pressure, canvas position). In the Spray Variations panel, you select the values (e.g. gift boxes with different ribbon options) or more customized results. You can also add separate image files for different channels (top and bottom color, textures, lighting, metallics) to allow mixed and matched images (e.g. You can load a single image file as a sheet of multiple images and divide them into different sticker images. Reset the custom brush settings to default for a very simple brush, then adjust it if needed.Ĭreate a new sticker spray preset by adding a new sticker sheet in the Stickers menu, then loading it and going to the Spray Variations panel to adjust the behavior. Here you can edit the global properties for that brush, so it will always act the same way whenever you use it. Customize or create a custom brush preset in the Brush Designer (from the Settings or under Tools). These are both used for the entire stroke, but the relative size, rotation, and position can be adjusted. The Custom Brush uses a specific shape for the head and another image for the grain. ![]() The Sticker Spray stylus properties are all set in the Spray Variations panel, but it allows you to customize the response to pressure, tilt, rotation, airbrush wheel and pen (barrel) twist for the properties that your stylus supports.Ĭreating New Brush Presets (Advanced Settings) Adding a New Dab/Sticker Image You can adjust this or customize properties for advanced styluses (airbrush wheel, barrel rotation) from the Stylus Properties menu at the top of Settings or the Brush Designer. It uses stylus tilt for rotation by default. You can adjust the range in the Stroke Settings. The Custom Brush uses stylus pressure to vary opacity and size. The Sticker Spray always picks up color per individual dab but the individual color values can be adjusted (e.g. The Custom Brush can be adjusted to pick up color per stroke or per dab (on a sliding scale). The Sticker Spray does not react to existing paint in any way, so it cannot be used as a blender.īoth tools will pick up color from a tracing image. The Custom Brush can pick up paint color from the canvas and be used as a blender (with or without any actual color on the Custom Brush, see the Color Settings page for help, but it does not affect texture. These are all available in the Brush Designer as well, but are listed in Settings for quick access. The Settings panel for the Custom Brush allows you to adjust stroke properties like opacity, canvas grain, smoothing, and the minimum size (to control size variation). These options control how the stroke acts relative to your existing paint and layers, and are not the same as the more advanced settings in the Spray Variations, which controls what the stroke will look like. The Settings panel for the Sticker Spray lets you adjust autoflow, auto-flatten (whether it’s on a separate layer or not) and whether it responds to Symmetry or not. Strokes are a single pixel deep and do not have any paint depth or interact with any of ArtRage’s custom paint properties (like a normal digital brush in another program), but can respond to canvas texture. You can also choose to add them as separate sticker layers instead of directly onto existing paint, and right click on individual stickers to adjust size, shape, shadows, and opacity.Ĭustom Brush presets use the same repeating dab and grain for the entire stroke. Sticker Spray presets use one or more images from a single sticker sheet in a customizable sequence and stroke pattern. ![]() I recommend also setting up WiFi here for simplicity and as a backup in case the USB-C connection plays up. Before clicking Write, click the cog in the bottom corner and be sure to set at least a hostname, username and password, and to be sure to enable SSH. Insert your SD card of choice, click Choose Storage and select your SD card. Navigate to the downloaded image and select it. ![]() In RPi Imager, click Choose OS and then scroll to the bottom to bring up the Custom image option. These images have the necessary configuration for the USB-C ethernet configuration already baked in. Start by burning Ubuntu Server on to an SD card using Raspberry Pi Imager.ĭownload the latest version of my Ubuntu Server image from the Github Release Page. As a workaround, we'll start with Ubuntu Server, which uses Netplan rather than Network Manager, and install the Ubuntu Desktop environment manually. This is pretty much essential for the USB-C Pi/iPad combo. Although Network Manager will happily bring the usb0 interface up, I can't get it to bring said interface up automatically at startup. Configure TigerVNC for a smooth remote desktop experienceĪ quick note to start: at the time of writing this I was unable to get stock Ubuntu Desktop to work with the USB OTG ethernet configuration.Connect the Pi over USB-C to a compatible iPad.Setup an Ubuntu Desktop environment on a Raspberry Pi 4. ![]()
![]() It is highly recommended to use /fni (force new instance) on starting UltraEdit for executing a script from the command line when the configuration setting Allow multiple instances is not checked as by default. However, clip.exe from Windows Server 2003 can be also used on Windows XP. Uedit64.exe /fni /s="J:\SkyDrive\work\ue-script\newFile.js"Ĭlip.exe has been available since Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003. The following two commands must be executed on the command line or in a batch file: echo parameter1=value1,parameter2=value2 | %SystemRoot%\System32\clip.exe These disadvantages are very problematic if UltraEdit should be executed in the background for executing the script. But it has the big disadvantage that Windows clipboard content is modified on starting and no other process should copy something to the clipboard before the parameters and their values are read by the script. Pass parameters to an UltraEdit/ UEStudio script via the clipboard by modifying the script before execution.ġ.I'm aware of three possibilities to pass strings (parameters) to an UltraEdit script from another process before starting UltraEdit and executing the script: The command line arguments are interpreted by uedit64.exe or uedit32.exe and UltraEdit macros and scripts don't have access to arguments list of the executable. It is not possible to specify additional custom parameters for an UltraEdit macro/script on the command line of UltraEdit. There are many scripting languages and script interpreters for doing something depending on parameters like VBScript, PowerShell, Perl, Python, etc. Or an UltraEdit script is started manually by a user from within UltraEdit without or with some minimal user interaction using getString and/or getValue. This MUST be the last parameter on the command line.UltraEdit scripts are executed usually from the command line to reformat one or more text files completely without user interaction and without depending on parameters. UltraEdit will use your last-used settings for your last Findįor this find. Will open c:\temp\test.txt and search for the first occurrence of “dog” in Uedit32 c:\temp\test.txt /i=c:\temp\uedit32.iniĪllows you to open UltraEdit with a differen INI file will open c:\temp\test.txt in UltraEdit Will open c:\temp\test.txt in the original instance of UltraEdit (UltraEdit Will open c:\temp\test.txt in a new instance of UltraEdit Will open c:\temp\test.txt and print it, then immediately close UltraEdit ![]() The line number may be specified without specifying the column number. Will open c:\temp\test.txt and place the cursor at line 10, column 15. ![]() Must be listed per line in the specified list file. Will open all listed files in c:\temp\list.txt in UltraEdit. html files in current directory in UltraEdit Tells UltraEdit to play the macro twice (specified by the “ 2“) and then to exit UltraEdit (specified by the “ e“). Uedit32 c:\temp\test.txt /s=”c:\temp\script.js”Īdditionally, you can specify via the command line how many times the macro/script is played, and whether to close UltraEdit after the macro/script is played. To play a script, you would use the following: Uedit32 c:\temp\test.txt /m=”c:\temp\macro.mac” So, to play a macro on a certain file from the command line you would use the following: To invoke UltraEdit from the command line and play a macro or script on a certain file(s), you would need to add the parameter “ /m” for macros or “ /s” for scripts, followed by an equal sign and the path to the macro. Note: For long file names, it may be necessary to enclose the file path and name in quotes. Uedit32 c:\temp\test.txt c:\temp\index.html c:\temp\index.php c:\temp\stat.js You can also open multiple files by separating them with a space. To invoke UltraEdit to open a specific file, you would type “ uedit32” followed by the path of the file you’d like to open. This will open UltraEdit, just as clicking on the UltraEdit icon in Windows will. To invoke UltraEdit from the command line, simply enter “ uedit32” and press Enter. ![]() The command line gives you more power and control over your standard Windows operations and provides the flexibility required for tasks that may exceed the user-friendliness of the Windows user interface. This is most often done using the Dos-prompt box which usually is accessed under Start -> Programs -> Accessories. UltraEdit can be invoked from the command line in Windows. Run a Macro or Script from the Command Line ![]() They attack the smugness of institutional life, trashing the fraternity system, country clubs, the Army-even local weathermen-with an impish good will that is unmistakably American. These comedies have several things in common. And for Peter Farrelly, who directed “There’s Something About Mary” with his brother Bobby, it was “Animal House,” in 1978. For Adam Sandler, it was “Caddyshack,” in 1980. For Jake Kasdan, the director of “Orange County,” it was “Stripes,” in 1981, and, even more powerfully, “Ghostbusters,” in 1984. For Jay Roach, the director of the Austin Powers films, that movie was “Groundhog Day,” in 1993. ![]() There is childhood, ruled by bland Hollywood comedies such as “The Goodbye Girl” and “Oh God!” And then there is the glorious, unruly adolescence of the person they became after seeing a film that spoke to them in ways their parents didn’t-a film that moved them to emulation. On my father’s side, the Friends and Holtons unselfconsciously said “tomayto.” On my mother’s, the Robinsons were staunchly in the Anglophile “tomahto” camp, while the Piersons, on the even more superior view that “tomahto” was pretentious, were ardently pro-“tomayto.” At the family beach house on Long Island, my great-uncle Wilson Pierson would rebuke my mother, a Robinson in such matters, if she asked for a “tomahto.” “Would you like some potahtoes with that?” he’d say.Ĭhapter 1 excerpt from CHEERFUL MONEY: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor by Tad Friend (Little, Brown and Company, hardcover, also available in e-book pub date: 9/21/09).The lives of many young comedy writers and directors are divided into two parts. On the question of how to pronounce “tomato,” for instance, the family was split. My grandparents were distant constellations, and as they wheeled across the sky I felt unshadowed by their marriages, their affairs, their remarriages, or their quarrels. Though my parents gave me love and learning and all the comforts, I believed I could go it alone. I believed my character had been formed by charged moments and impressions - the drift of snow, the peal of church bells, the torrent of light cascading through the elms out front into our sunporch. I believed, then, that my family was not my fate. ![]() As my grandparents happened to constitute a Wasp compass, the way ahead was marked in all directions: I could proceed as a Robinson like Grandma Tim’s family (loquacious, madcap, sometimes unhinged) a Pierson like Grandpa John’s family (bristling with brains) a Holton like Grandma Jess’s family (restless, haughty show ponies) or a Friend like Grandpa Ted’s family (moneyed, clubbable, and timid). ![]() When I graduated from Shipley, a small prep school in Bryn Mawr, my father’s mother, Grandma Jess, wrote to congratulate me on my academic record: “A truly tremendous achievement - but then I could expect nothing less due to your marvelous background - Robinson, Pierson, Holton, Friend!” I remember scowling at her airy blue script, noting the point - after the first dash - where the compliment turned into a eugenic claim. The memoir is most engaging when he keeps closest to home the scenes with Friend’s parents are touching and poignant.Īt the beginning of the book, Friend writes, “I am a Wasp because I harbored a feeling of disconnection from my parents, as they had from their parents, and their parents had from their parents.” Cheerful Money is Friend’s funny and enlightening way of piecing together that disconnect.Įliza Borné recently graduated from Wellesley (and is not a Wasp). Through it all, Friend falls in (and out) of love-multiple times-and deals with the knowledge that when his kids are grown, they won’t be Wasps. Clearly an expert on the breed, Friend sprinkles hilarious aphorisms throughout the text: “Wasps name their dogs after liquor and their cars after dogs and their children after their ancestors” “Wasps emerge from the womb wrinkly and cautious, already vice presidents, already fifty-two.” In Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor, Friend, a staff writer at The New Yorker, writes a multi-generational portrait of his family, an impressive set of Wasps whose ancestors include a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Not if Tad Friend has anything to say about it. The economy has tanked, unemployment’s up and we’ve all got better things to do than read about the woes and ruminations of prep school-educated rich folks, right? |
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