From the sixth and seventh paragraph, my mind that the writer do not like to show off HIM self in the specially place, but also he will strut himself, in that time when showing off maybe forgivable and maybe even acceptable. The place in “no one’s completely immune. Not you. And I.”That can prove my mind.
What is the meaning of name-drop? How to understand it? I think the “name-drop” equal to (equal)“seek attention”. At last I found it in the dictionary that of practice of casually mentioning the names of famous people one knows or pretends one knows in one knows in order to impress others.
The word group of “seek attention” and “name-drop” that I understand hardly .I do not know which they decorate. At last I think they decorate to the nice man and the nice man does not do that thing.
What is the meaning of is*offensive? The meaning of offensive that upsetting or annoying: insulting.