"Well, I have the charming, semi-bohemian, interesting lifestyle of the gentile impoverished self-employed book dealer. Please come over and I will fix you a cup of tea on my tiny stove and let you rummage through my stacks."
I was pretty much following this thread until this sentence shook me. Did you really mean "gentile," or were you perhaps thinking "genteel" or "gentle" or something else?
