This Class Is Everywhere

I'm starting to notice how much these class themes can be applied to basically everything, I feel as though I now look at things differently now, in regards to literature, and, I guess everything else. I can't even watch the lowest of the low brow anymore like I used to, t.v., my mind immediately goes to the class themes and I only seem to pay attention to the elements of the show or movie that can relate to these ideas. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is about a man who ages backwards, be us born a small baby with the physical makeup of an eighty year old, as time goes on he just gets younger. At one point Benjamin returns to the first home he has ever know, and his mother greets him and he responds with, "Everything looks the same." And she says something to the effect of, "When ever you return home it's the same, but it's you that has changed." I now refer you to T.S. Eliot's The Four Quartets, "We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time." On the show Californication I witness a blending of the high and low brow. I know that the book Lolita has been mentioned in regards to how it is a story about a pedophile, but what it should be read for is its language and how it tells us its just a story. Anyway in this particular episode the main character, Hank, has just written a book which he says, "...is a modern version of Lolita..." there are several things going on here. First, that Hank's admittance that this is a novel similar to another communicates his understanding that this has already been done before, this is just his exploration of a particular plot. Second, the story is directly borrowed from a real life event that happened to him, life as fiction. Third, he sees this as a return to his old self, because it has been his first piece in a long time, except he knows it for the first time. So yeah.