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...this was in the days, quite thirteen years ago, when automobilists made their wills and took food supplies...
Now even today, when the very cabman drives his automobile, a man who buys a motor cannot say to a friend: "I've bought a motor. Come for a spin," in the same self-unconscious accents as he would say: "I've bought a boat. Come for a sail," or "I've bought a house. Come and look at it." Even today and in the centre of London there is still something about a motor - well something...
Everybody who has bought a motor, and everybody who has dreamed of buying a motor, will comprehend me. Useless to feign that a motor is the most banal thing imaginable. It is not. It remains the supreme symbol of swagger.
Arnold Bennett - The Card - published 1910
Oh yes - want one of those and the goggles.
ReplyDeleteActually James, I wondered if it was you. (:
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