• Some of them seem to change from ordinary members of the public into pretentious know-alls who have a totally disproportionate impression of their status.
• Southerners think that all northerners are cloth-capped thickies, while northerners think that most southerners are over-paid, loud-mouthed know-alls.
• They make an odd pair: the boy is tall, handsome, brilliant, a classic know-all with immense charm; the father seems older than his real age, depressed, a drunk, somewhere between being amused by and aghast at his own son.

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