15 Feb 2018
Failure
Beau Brummel, Failure
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George Bryan Brummel, 1778-1840.
Beau Brummel, the Restoration dandy, spent hours every morning putting exactly the right crease into his cravats by lowering his chin, just so. Often, his valet would carry out armfulls of crumpled linen. “Our failures.†So we can imagine the cosmic butler carrying out bundles of unworkable monstrosities: our failures.