Wednesday, May 23, 2007
And this -- "non-factual"
By contrast, Marty Ruleton, a secondary alias, though he hails from the same period of history, is also American, and does not go hatless, inhabits an entirely different milieu, and his mien and acumen are opposed to those of Ruleman. Marty is a gadabout, playboy, a jolly cad, a dilettante. He drinks highballs, he plays tennis, he doesn't read, not even accounts, he is wealthy and has a patina of education thanks to pater's bestowal of fat endowments on three eminent institutions. He brays. He is licentious. But, for all these failings, he is excellent company and "gets away with it". Oh Marteeee, people are inclined to say, as the butler reports another Duesenberg totalled or introduces to the company the latest tearful Mixie or Roxie, what have you done now? They are delighted by his flagrancy. Marty Ruleton does not time-travel, but lives only in his period and now.
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