I was sufficiently recovered from my nervous condition – or else the booze was beginning to work – to be able to discuss with Rudi the merits of checked or striped trousers, which had been the great debate among the London nobs that year.
That Really Won’t Do
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn’t resolve the question of whether it’s true or not. Continue & Comment
A Writer’s Life
“He’d heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.”
Terry Pratchett, Snuff