There was also the infamous 'bad pint', blamed on a full range of hangover symptons, nothing to do with having consumed the night before 10 pints of strong chemical enriched lager beer.

The Williams Club members may use the Princeton Club.

PS: I've been to the Princeton Club. Not a good rehab. The Harvard Club on the other hand has that big elephant head on the wall.

^ To be clear, that's not snark but hopefully some potentially useful advice.

Tom comes to us from the old GoPreppy site (where he was a member of the SFRP), via the Trad forum. His usage of Flusser's correct usage of the Japanese term Trad was the one incorrectly taken up by the young Skip who was later to morph into Harris - The raw material for AAAC Trad.

This bit of history is to make sense of the whole 'lifestyle' thing & where it came from in connection to AAAC Trad.

But I think, Tom, today a lot of people have grown very weary of the 'lifestyle' game as it has produced such strange results. Blame Harris who insisted it was all about much, much more than just the clothes as he tried to copy you.

'The Curriculum' site - Even their name comes from Harris - Is the place where they do the lifestyle thing now that most other people are fed up with after all the posing & inventions that have gone with it (which again leads back to Harris who could never keep his story straight).

- So for a 'classic lifestyle' GoCurriculum!  Preppy two steps removed and, in a sense, based on your own inspiration to Harris on GoPreppy.  It's YOUR forum!

Best,

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Jesus H. Christ on the cross:  TMC (of course) just cracked a Cheever-sized egg.  Has anyone ever linked Cheever to The Look?  I can't do it because I'm too often drunk these days - like Cheever himself - but someone should.  Talk amongst yourselves, or I'll assign the task.

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... To which the Rojo position would be: Fiction based on fact...

My answer: So why not get into the facts?

Yes. Back to Buckley, eh? 

Amen.

Did I step on my dick with the Cheever bit?  If so, I apologize for such a boneheaded gaffe.

Piacere!

Another: "Around this time (John Cheever) sat next to a bum in the park and asked for a “pull” from the man’s bottle, and soon he began hoping he’d be hit by a car while walking in traffic. When his student Rick Siggelkow stopped for a visit, Cheever insisted on giving the (much taller) young man a pair of dark, lightweight Brooks Brothers suits: “Now you have two suits to use for a summer funeral,” he remarked. (Siggelkow mused that this was a “very Cheever” thing to say: “Everything was always evocative of something else. In other words, he didn’t just give me two suits, he gave me ‘two suits to use for a summer funeral,’ and the way he said it you could see yourself standing at that funeral wearing those suits.”) While the two were drinking, Cheever began to cough and gasp for breath, finally asking Siggelkow to call for an ambulance—then, quite adamantly, changing his mind. “You really have to go,” he said, closing his eyes and sitting rigidly back in his chair, “or something’s going to happen we’re both going to regret.” Siggelkow protested, but Cheever demanded he leave immediately, and when the student glanced up from the bottom of the stairs, Cheever was looking down at him with a forced, cordial, miserable smile (this a matter of “New England breeding,” Siggelkow figured)."

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