“Don’t you think that being things is rather better than doing things?” That line, spoken by a frustrated aristocrat, perfectly embodies The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington’s 1918 novel about the declining fortunes of an old-money Midwestern family as they are displaced by industrialist tycoons who *do* things instead of sitting around, idly enjoying their inherited wealth and just
#86: How to Do Things
#86: How to Do Things
#86: How to Do Things
“Don’t you think that being things is rather better than doing things?” That line, spoken by a frustrated aristocrat, perfectly embodies The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington’s 1918 novel about the declining fortunes of an old-money Midwestern family as they are displaced by industrialist tycoons who *do* things instead of sitting around, idly enjoying their inherited wealth and just