"My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position."

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As a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock of a well-guarded safe-deposit box: in response, not to a single key or a single number, but to a combination of numbers

— Theodor Adorno