TR, quite Misc.....bringing up the Dead Souls comparison again

[Mark Kohut]

In which I mentioned this word which I learned from Nabokov's book on Gogol.....but this is from wikipedia and better said esp
as regards The Recognitions' resonances than i defined it: 
 
poshlost (an untranslatable Russian word which is perhaps best rendered as "self-satisfied inferiority", moral and spiritual, with overtones of middle-class pretentiousness, fake significance and philistinism).
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