02 May 2011

Young Fogey: A.N. Wilson

A. N. Wilson, the novelist and critic, says he wears the same clothes (usually a three-piece suit and bow tie, plus a shirt with a deep and curled-up collar) until they smell. Then he drops them in the corner of the room.

The Young Fogey Handbook, Suzanne Lowry (1985)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

That was my husband's way too until marriage broke his spirit.

w. adam mandelbaum esq. said...

Rather dingy not dandy.

Des Esseintes said...

Poor guy. In a stronger man, the spirit would have broken the marriage.

dE

NCJack said...

Des Esseintes, did you take a close look at Tabitha's pic?

J K Huysmans said...

I used to think that I was Des Esseintes.