"I'm also vain enough to have noticed that I was once the top result when you Googled 'Jason Kessler,' and, at a certain point, he eclipsed me.
But Roth is also vain; she's a journalist, after all, and rubbing shoulders, and who knows what else, with movers and shakers has blunted her senses, clouded her vision.
There are differing ways in which a memoir of one's father – particularly if that father is also vain, pompous, utterly convinced of his rectitude and combative to a degree unusual even in the courtrooms of the land – might pan out.
It is also vain to be pained at the thought of dying leaving no children behind (22 4): one will be remembered by friends, especially philosophical ones, one's name will be worn by others in the course of future time, and one's children may not be as worthwhile custodians of one's legacy as one's friends.
An exotic beauty, he was also extravagantly vain.
"Slim and elegant in those days, [Cook] was also quite vain, sensing instinctively as soon as he came into a room where the mirror was and casting pensive sidelong glances at it, while stroking his chin, as if checking on his own beauty," he recalls.
The emperor, who besides being vain was also a snob, and delighted in pointing out other peoples' stupidity, immediately agreed.
