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April 24, 2007


Spurned, He Stabs Her Thrice

Why we read (and re-read) P.G. Wodehouse:

“Mr Meggs’s home-town was no City of Pleasure. Remove the Vicar’s magic-lantern and the try-your-weight machine opposite the post office, and you practically eliminated the temptations to tread the primrose path. The only young men in the place were silent, gaping youths, at whom lunacy commissioners looked sharply and suspiciously when they met. The tango was unknown, and the one-step. The only form of dance extant — and that only at the rarest of intervals — was a sort of polka not unlike the movements of a slightly inebriated boxing kangaroo. Mr Meggs’s secretaries and typists gave the town on startled, horrified glance, and stampeded for London like frightened ponies.”

From the story, A Sea of Troubles

3 Responses to “Spurned, He Stabs Her Thrice”

  1. Tyro said:

    Simply topping, old bean.

  2. Turbowagon said:

    Mao,
    In the trading for dummies lessons when you mention stopping trading at lunchtime, do you mean that you do not initiate any trades after a certain bar? Thanks.

  3. C. Maoxian said:

    Turbo: Yes, by 1 PM EST, at the latest, better at noon, I recommend walking away from the screens. Concentrating intensely for four hours is already hard enough, and since you’re closing everything at the end of the day, there’s just not enough time for things to work out if they’re put on very late in the day.

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