- Gordon Comstock spends quite a bit of time in the first part of the novel obsessing over his 'unspendable' threepenny bit. But he works unattended in a bookshop, so why couldn't he just change it in the till?
- A person with the sense to do that is not the type to obsess over the shame of possessing a three-penny bit.
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