P.J. O´Rourkes little essay in the Wall Street Journal is good reading, particularly for all those, who dream about joining the ranks of English type country gentlemen:
I decided to become a rustic squire when I was 32 and stupid as only 32 can be. Youth's frantic idiocy doesn't have the means. Simple-minded old age lacks the energy. In midlife, we're as dumb as we get. So I bought land in New Hampshire—first a little, then more and finally too much.
(This is an earlier version of a country gentleman out "shooting") |
I'd majored in English literature and, as sometimes happens, thought this was supposed to make me English instead of literate. I pictured myself in knickers and a Norfolk jacket striding over my fields with a fine English double-barreled shotgun broken open on my arm and my loyal English setter at heel.
Read the entire article here
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