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• “Pretty smart chap, that,” muttered the Wise Man as he sauntered off. “Positive, chump; comparative chumpier; superlative, chumpiest: that’s my definition of him,” concluded the Fool as he resumed his favorite pastime, that of making faces at the cigar dealer’s wooden Indian.
• The former was an elegant gentleman, not far removed from the present-day type; but the latter obviously bore the ‘bull’ quarterings on his escutcheon, for he was a decidedly cobby little dog, broad chest and a shorter, chumpier head…
• Anne E. Wilson and Michael Ross have shown how the self-justifying biases of memory help us move psychologically, in their words, from “chump to champ.” We distance ourselves from our earlier “chumpier” incarnations if doing so allows us to feel better about how much we have grown, learned, and matured, but, like Haber, we feel close to earlier selves we thought were champs. Either way, we can’t lose.