One was "supposed" to remove the paper band from the cigar, so he left it on. To break even the smallest rules by which others convinced themselves that they were behaving correctly gave him great pleasure. His disdain for vulgarity included the vulgarity of wanting to avoid the appearance of being vulgar. .... He could just as easily despise a man for leaving the band on his cigar. ...
Everytime he sm0ked he thought of the emphysema that had killed his father and felt annoyed by the prospect of dying in the same manner.
"Never Mind", by Edward St. Aubyn, who makes Evelyn Waugh look like Alexander McCall Smith...
Thursday, May 19, 2011
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No link? No Kindle highlight data? Zzzz.
It's called a book.
And is OP in the United States just as the five book cycle of which it is the first volume is completed.
You can buy it from Amazon UK, here:
("Some Hope" contains the three short novels that begin the cycle)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Some-Hope-Edward-St-Aubyn/dp/0330435884/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1305902355&sr=1-1
Just FYI, that's a url but it's not a link. Copy and paste? Who has time? As for reading "books," some of us work for a living.
Some of us read books, Kindles, and "gasp" actual magazines.
Personally, I find the Kindle data preceding a blog entry annoying as the formatting sucks. I just want the quote and possibly some commentary about the quote.
As for Tulk's inability to use an HTML tag...well he is a Dickensian character and they know naught of the internet.
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