January 10, 2009
On Mere Man c. 1909
From the January 10, 1909 NYT:
Man that is born of woman is small potatoes and few to the hill, and usually about as necessary as a smokestack on a watering cart.
He takes pride to himself, in his indomitable will, but it only needs an 89-cent alarm clock to wake him up in the morning.
Man goes about in a spike-tailed coat and a skyscraper hat and declares bridges and tunnels open "in the name of the Commonwealth," and he wouldn't know a Commonwealth if he fell over one.
His wife takes his name, his creditors take his money, his tailor takes his measure - but none of them take him seriously.
Man is merely a matter of opinion - his wife's opinion. And that is a serial without an end.
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