The Eccentric Life of a Literary Connoisseur
Picture a unique individual, a blend of courage, tenacity, and conceit, indulging in fine vintages and first editions while living a monastic lifestyle. An intellectual vagabond towering above others, finding solace among books and literary salons, with an aversion to conventional dining and a distinctive appearance that sets him apart.
- Literary connoisseur
- Eccentric lifestyle
- Intellectual vagabond
- Courageous individual
- Monastic living
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So You Thought You Recognized Him . . . .
1 & 6. Describe yourself using 10 words
2. What do you possess - emotionally?
3. What are ten things that you enjoy doing in your free time?
4. What are you an intimate of? What do you know well? i.e. skills, artists, music, etc
5. What do you own??
So You Thought You Recognized Him .
So You Thought You Recognized Him . By S.J. Perlman Picture to yourself a ruddy-cheeked stocky sort of chap, dressed in loose but smelly tweeds, a stubby briar between his teeth (it has resisted the efforts of the best surgeons to extract it), with a firm yet humorous mouth, generous to fault, ever-ready for a flagon of nut-brown ale with his cronies,
possessing the courage of a lion, the tenaciousness of a Florence Nightingale, and the conceit of a diva, an intellectual vagabond, a connoisseur of first editions, fine vintages, and beautiful women, well above six feet in height and distinguished for his pallor, a dweller in the world of books, his keen gray eye belying the sensual lip beneath,
equally at home browsing through the bookstalls along Fourth Avenue and rubbing elbows (his own elbows) in the smart literary salon of the 57th Street, a rigid abstainer and non-smoker who lives entirely on dehydrated fruits, cereals, and nuts, rarely leaving his monastic cell nowadays except to dine at the Salmagundi;
an intimate of Cocteau, Picasso, Joyce, and Lincoln Kirstein, a dead shot, a past master of the foils and the International Woodman of the World, dictating his novels, plays, poems, short stories, commedias dell arte, aphorisms, and ripostes at lightening speed to a staff of underpaid secretaries, an expert judge of horseradish,
the owner of a model farm, equipped with the most slovenly dairy devices a man as sharp as a razor, dull as a hoe, as clean as a whistle, as tough as nails, as white as snow, as black as the raven s wing, as poor as Job, a man with the lark, down on your toes, and gone with the wind.
A man kind and captious, sweet and sour, fat and thin, tall and short, racked with fever, plagued by the locust, beset by witches, hagridden, cross-grained, fancy-free, a fun loving, addle-pated dreamer, visionary, and slippered pantaloon.
Picture to yourself such a man, I say, and you won t have the faintest conception of Arthur Kober.
Stanza 1: Describe Yourself Overall for this assignment we are focusing on: concrete and specific details as well as authentic and precise details! Still consider sensory details! Bring this description of yourself to life! Stanza 2: What do you possess emotionally? Submit to Canvas once you are finished! It is due by 7:30am tomorrow! Stanza 3: What do you enjoy doing with your free time? Stanza 4: What are you an intimate of? Stanza 5: What do you own? Stanza 6: Describe Yourself
