It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame. I don't know how they become so quickly inducted into the presiding mysteries, or who instructs them in the finely articulated inflections of contempt for the laity, but somehow they learn to think of themselves as suppliers of the monetarized DNA that is the breath of life.

Famous Quotes / Lewis H. Lapham

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Lewis H. Lapham: "It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame. I don't know how they become so quickly inducted into the presiding mysteries, or who instructs them in the finely articulated inflections of contempt for the laity, but somehow they learn to think of themselves as suppliers of the monetarized DNA that is the breath of life."

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Accident	Acquire	Articulated	Banks
Become	Breath	Contempt	Deposit
Employment	Eternal	Even	Finely
Flame	Greek	Hierophants	Inducted
Inflections	Instinctively	Instructs	Into
Junior	Laity	Learn	Life
Lower	Monetarized	Most	Mysteries
Officiousness	Perform	Preferably	Presiding
Quickly	Registers	Resemble	Rites
Somehow	Supplicants	Suppliers	Tellers
Temples	Tending	Them	Themselves
Think	Voices	Weeks	Withdrawal
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It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame. I don't know how they become so quickly inducted into the presiding mysteries, or who instructs them in the finely articulated inflections of contempt for the laity, but somehow they learn to think of themselves as suppliers of the monetarized DNA that is the breath of life. - Lewis H. Lapham