Thread is a bit dead but I couldn't help myself:

" 'Thanks, mate,' he said with a grin. No one had called me mate before in my life,-it was the clothes that had done it. For the first time I noticed, too, how the attitude of women varies with a man's clothes. When a badly dressed man passes them they shudder away from him with a quite frank movement of disgust, as though he were a dead cat. Clothes are powerful things. Dressed in tramp's clothes it is very difficult, at any rate for the first day, not to feel that you are genuinely degraded. You might feel the same shame, irrational but very real, your first night in prison."

George Orwell
Down and Out in Paris and London

Last edited by Godspeed (2007-12-26 18:16:37)

^ +1

Don't know why I mised this, H.

"Famous After Death" is new to me - Thanks for the heads up.

Does 'Arry like Cheever too?

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Some ladies think they may, under the privileges of the deshabille, be loose and negligent of their dress in the morning. But be you, from the moment you rise till you go to bed, as cleanly and properly dressed as at at the hours of dinner or tea. Thomas Jefferson

Like the Langley quote & got the Woolf quote from Keers.

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