My first real vintage purchase!

[kuwisdelu]

You'll be a prize for some young dame, without a doubt. What are you studying, if I may ask?

Why thank you, ma'am!

I should be graduating in the spring with a BS in Statistics and will be going on to pursue a Master's in it. I was planning on getting a job after that, but I'm student-teaching a differential equations computer lab this semester, and now I'm thinking about continuing toward a PhD and getting into academia and teaching.

I used to have a second major in Physics solely out of my interest in the subject, but the classes were getting to be too much of a stress on me, so I decided to drop that and pursue a minor in English instead to feed my other love...

My real dream is to become a writer a la F. Scott Fitzgerald. I'm just looking for my Zelda.

He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher—shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.

“They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.”

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

Ah darling, were I younger and free, (or just free ) I'd be ever so tempted to be your Zelda. Minus the trauma and tragedy of course. Best of luck. She's out there somewhere.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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Ah, the wine is kicking in!


There's a point in a woman's life when she eyes older men less and younger men more. It makes sense.

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[ThesFlishThngs]

I know you're not talking about me, Mr. Chevalier. And I was coming back to say how I'd like to quote something from "The Crack Up", but really, after the wine, and with a cat taking refuge on my lap and all, I can't be bothered to get up for my reference.

 

[kuwisdelu]

Ah darling, were I younger and free, (or just free ) I'd be ever so tempted to be your Zelda. Minus the trauma and tragedy of course. Best of luck. She's out there somewhere.

You are far too kind, milady.

As for myself, I'm not sure I could do without the trauma and tragedy...

After dropping two physics courses this week, I was seeking to add a graduate English course on the Romantic poets. The professor was happy about my enthusiasm, but concerned about my ability to succeed--only three undergrads had ever taken her course, and only one had done well.

After attending my first class, as she was signing the permission form to add it, she commented to me "so are you one who likes to live dangerously?" in reference to my decision to take it.

This was my email reply:

In answer to your question last class, yes, of course I like to live dangerously. What other way is there to live than that picaresque, Byronic way which speeds one toward the experiences (or, as Pfau put it in regards to Kant's interpretation, the non-experiences) of the sublime, and to rush headlong into the throes and joys of that literature which one loves and which delivers such breathless aesthetics, with passion and reckless abandon?

While the graduate students there were better dressed than my undergrad counterparts, I am still sad to report I was the only one wearing a jacket, tie, and fedora.

 

[kuwisdelu]

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Ah, the wine is kicking in!


There's a point in a woman's life when she eyes older men less and younger men more.

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Aye, and there is a point in a young man's life when he eyes girls less and ladies more. To speak to your topic, sir, women are so much like a fine wine.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Aye, and there is a point in a young man's life when he eyes girls less and ladies more.

Oh, definitely!

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[ThesFlishThngs]

Do not be sad about the jacket, tie, and fedora. A man's a man, despite the nonsense that surrounds him. A healthy dose of trauma and tragedy may well be acceptable in one's final years at university; I pretty much dropped out of my fourth year; abandoning the art classes whilst achieving stellar marks in the advance writing course. Life is what it is; allow it to guide you, but not control you.....

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I know you're not talking about me, Mr. Chevalier.

Certainly not. I was talking about women I've known, bless their wild hearts.

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[ThesFlishThngs]

Gosh, I'm kind of liking the turn this topic is taking. And not because of the cat on my lap, or the 1920s fellow in my vintage crush list or anything.........

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I might as well warn you now: ours is the kind of conversation that quickly gets nipped in the bud around here. Not my choice; it's just the way of things.

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[ThesFlishThngs]

Ah, Mr. Chevalier,
It's not a matter of a young man or a regular man, but simply the intrigue of the topic. More's the pity about the nipping in the bud.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Agreed. And to be fair, the Lounge is more permissive now than in the past.

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[kuwisdelu]

And now to stay on topic...

Not quite vintage, but some newly eBayed Ferragamo monkstraps with the suit pants:

Tonight's pajamas:

(Not literally...though once after an all-nighter, I did fall asleep in my BB french-cuff shirt and tie, woke up too late to shower or change, and went to meet my academic advisor. Upon receiving her compliments, I could quite truthfully say "these? they're just my pajamas!")

To women and fine wine!

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

See, in all fairness, our Mr. kuwisdelu is hardly being fair, is he? Honestly, he's a bit of a tease...........

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Yep...he's asking for a full ribbing. lol

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[kuwisdelu]

See, in all fairness, our Mr. kuwisdelu is hardly being fair, is he? Honestly, he's a bit of a tease...........

I have been called worse things.

It's the fact that I sometimes fall asleep with cufflinks on, isn't it?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Ha! You're good at this!


I'll bow out now and leave the banter to you two.

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[kuwisdelu]

Ha! You're good at this!

There is an oft-repeated quip that could follow this, but I shan't go there just now.

Good night, sir!

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

Because someone dosn't care to have his wrist slapped, whilst others are too foolish to worry about it.