Psychotherapist Richard Joelson said in an article for Psychology Today that we tend to think of people who boast as arrogant, self-preoccupied, or even insecure.
He was not a Kinois himself, one of that snooty so-sophisticated lot, and the other drivers outside the Grand called him Kisangani after the city where he was born, in the east.
How strange must it appear to him! In what a disgraceful light might it not strike so vain a man! It might seem as if she had purposely thrown herself in his way again!
" Look at this bourgeois, look at this stuck-up person, " they would say, " who pretends to despise the best rations there are, sausages and cabbage, shame on the villain! The haughty wretch, he is damned for ever" .