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He lives them, wears them, and so is proofed against the temptation to follow the (logical) sequel to bourgeois success--the urge to abandon the self-denial that made it all possible, to mock your colleagues and spurn your peers, to return no e-mail, to call in sick from the beach house, to drink $20 bottles of wine every night, to watch porno movies in bed with ironic comp-lit graduate students, and to vanish for days on end in pursuit of un-bourgeois happiness.
Sweeney stands in the middle of the stage and tells the off-screen (but audible) audience how her brother got sick and took up residence in her small Hollywood house and how her parents moved down from Spokane, Wash.
"Pass the sick bag," suggests the Age . Other victims of the newspaper include Earl Spencer (Princess Diana's brother, "what a bounder and a cad"; click here for Slate 's "Assessment"), Boris Yeltsin, and Mike Tyson.
Michael Milken got sick and became a beloved philanthropist.
For the same reasons, leprosy is now called Hansen's disease , and mongolism has become Down syndrome ; people who were once called crazy, mad, lunatic, demented, etc., are now categorized as sick . All this name changing is mere logomancy which neither changes the fact that there is something wrong with the afflicted nor, in the long run, our attitudes towards them.