Sublime

In such cases, we may say that the modern world is too ridiculous to be ridiculed. You cannot caricature a caricature.

politeness and inability to shake off people who were being a pest, had developed an annoying habit since his arrival. Every morning, after we arrived at the beach, he would wander off on his own, chatting to people at random, until he came across someone – always a man – whom he judged to be outstandingly boring. He would talk to them until he had

mental note to add antimacassars

There was a certain positive originality, however slight, to be detected in him, and I occasionally observed that he was thinking for himself and expressing his own opinion, a phenomenon so rare that I would any day walk ten miles to observe it, and it amounted to the re-origination of many of the institutions of society.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.

fastidious