How Charity Can Harden The Heart
Zadie Smith loans money to an old friend, Christine, who disappears and then reappears. It teaches Smith a bigger lesson: Until this episode, I’d thought of myself as a working-class girl who’d happened upon money, my essential character unchanged. But money is not neutral; it changes everything, including the ability to neutrally judge what people will or will not do for it. George Sand: “Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.” Well, it... Continue reading »
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