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HIPSTER

                                             September 22, 2010

  "The hipster began his inevitable quest for
  self-definition by sulking in a kind of
  inchoate delinquency.  But this delinquency
  was merely a negative expression of his
  needs, and, since it led only into the
  waiting arms of the ubiquitous law, he was
  forced to _formalize_ his resentment and
  express it _symbolically_."

          -- Anatole Boyard,
             "A Portrait of the Hipster",
             Partisian Review, 1948
             Collected in "Beat Down to Your Soul",
             ed. Ann Charters



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