Comments on: Clothes http://www.richardbeard.info/2009/07/arictocrat-english-clothes/ the Sporting World of Richard Beard Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:17:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dru http://www.richardbeard.info/2009/07/arictocrat-english-clothes/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Dru Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:09:16 +0000 http://www.richardbeard.info/index.php/?p=450#comment-15 Having Nicholas Bentley draw the pictures was a bit of an asset too. However, I am very much liking the Maurois, thank you very nice, and shall make no further reference to the upstarted Hungarian. Having Nicholas Bentley draw the pictures was a bit of an asset too. However, I am very much liking the Maurois, thank you very nice, and shall make no further reference to the upstarted Hungarian.

]]> By: Richard Beard http://www.richardbeard.info/2009/07/arictocrat-english-clothes/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Richard Beard Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:47:58 +0000 http://www.richardbeard.info/index.php/?p=450#comment-14 Mikes's bestselling How to Be an Alien was published in 1946. Eight years after Maurois. It had the advantage of being in English, and therefore accessible to the notoriously monoglot English reading public. Mikes just elaborated a little on what Maurois had already written. You read it here first. Actually, you didn't. You read it in Mikes first - such is the injustice of the literary life. Mikes’s bestselling How to Be an Alien was published in 1946. Eight years after Maurois.

It had the advantage of being in English, and therefore accessible to the notoriously monoglot English reading public. Mikes just elaborated a little on what Maurois had already written. You read it here first. Actually, you didn’t. You read it in Mikes first – such is the injustice of the literary life.

]]> By: Dru http://www.richardbeard.info/2009/07/arictocrat-english-clothes/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Dru Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:37:07 +0000 http://www.richardbeard.info/index.php/?p=450#comment-13 Mikes again... he reckoned that the British were such good and considerate drivers because of the shockin' state of their underwear, which they would be extremely loth to have revealed by the medicos after a motor accident. Which, if so, means that the Brits have started taking more care of their undies in latter years. Mikes again… he reckoned that the British were such good and considerate drivers because of the shockin’ state of their underwear, which they would be extremely loth to have revealed by the medicos after a motor accident.

Which, if so, means that the Brits have started taking more care of their undies in latter years.

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