Established Marvel : a Monk by Abbreviation

12o. AS SOLID AS TANGIERS IN A BARE-KNUCKLE WORLD (nyc, 1967):

Now there's nothing wrong with nothing-people I guess but the fact of the matter is that they know 'nothing' and that's where I was from and the people now that I was amidst seemed to know by contrast 'everything' for just by being in NYC I suppose one becomes culturally aware in the know onto things savvy about stuff wise world-weary sharp and crafty too - everything I'd ever known before consisted mostly of suburban dullards doing dull things with little or no outreach towards larger matters of intellect or culture except perhaps for something that TV or Dave Garroway or Steve Allen or somebody like that was able to bring to them - any of those weird kinds of televised closet-intellectuals who would spout and badger about various things while managing at the same time to spoof and belittle their at-home suburbanized television-watcher audiences (it was all crazy and twisted like that) - in fact in today's 21st century world anyway a lot of that no longer matters and everything is now everywhere - but back then I didn't know that and walked madly amidst the new riches of wealth and intellect into which I'd stumbled.