Tuesday, 13 July 2010
बुक इ Excerpt
Having been asked for a short excerpt from Book I, here are two pages (left click each twice to enlarge them).
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THE NAKED APE GETS DRESSED. For those who strive for better things and who understand, as did Ben Jonson, that: "the pipe marks the point at which the orang-utan ends and man begins". - And those who understand S T Coleridge's: "While Fate tramples on things of beauty, the indignant human heart shall utter them."
“Especially, don’t wear a hat in someone else’s home….They may be worn in the public bar in a tavern – but one should not be there in the first place.” I find that, with the distinction between public bar and lounge eroding, even disappearing, following your edict is no longer practical. I have spent many happy hours propping up the bar in all sorts of establishments. Where else indeed, but in a country pub, would a confirmed urbanite such as I get to wear tweeds or moleskin?
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Hello FiS! This is one of those passages in the book where a little pinch of salt is very much needed. The intention was that my pomposity would be self-deflating!
ReplyDelete"Wearers of baseball caps in restaurants should be seized by four waiters..." Agreed. Wholeheartedly.
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