Been re-reading [i]Main Street[/i] by Sinclair Lewis. Novel from the early 20th Century that has an almost post-modernist sheen to its writing. Like Salinger twenty years before he was relevant and without any of his flaws as an author. Witty and poignant. 

[quote=Excerpt][i]The sociology instructor was new. He was married, and therefore taboo, but he had come from Boston, he had lived among poets and socialists and Jews and millionaire uplifters at the University Settlement in New York, and he had a beautiful white strong neck. He led a giggling class through the prisons, the charity bureaus, the employment agencies of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Trailing at the end of the line Carol was indignant at the prodding curiosity of the others, their manner of staring at the poor as at a Zoo. She felt herself a great liberator.[/i][/quote]