Such tropes expose the extravagation whereby capitalism is decked out as the incontestable standard of human behavior and culture.

Most folks associate London with White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and struggling numb-handed to start a fire in the snow. (You know how that one ends.)

overcoat, overpaint

Don't do anything gooseish, will you?' 'No, and don't you do anything gooseish either!' she retorted.