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Hello. When my family moved into 35 Regent Road we were all perfectly content with the numbered address.

But then my mother examined the grime-encrusted concrete post which supported the front gate and found an indented name, Rosemount, or so much better than 35, she said.

Dad disagreed.

House names were pretentious, signs that the owners were trying to acquire a status

they didn't quite deserve.

So we stayed as number 35.

But I reckon Dad would have enjoyed the theory of the leisure class.

Thalston Veblin's elegantly written account of the myriad ways in which the newly prosperous

middle class use a variety of possessions and forms of conduct to demonstrate

their taste and distinction. So for an example an interest in intellectual and

artistic matters simultaneously displays one's freedom from the hardship of manual labor and the vulgarities

of mere capital accumulation. Consider for a moment Roman Abramovich's interest in art. This previously unknown predilection

cost the London-based Russian billionaire around 80 million pounds back in 2008

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