

Having been asked for a short excerpt from Book I, here are two pages (left click each twice to enlarge them).
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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