"But I aspire to be the purple stripe, that is, the garment’s brilliant hem. However small a part it may be, it can still manage to make the garment as a whole attractive. Don’t tell me, then, ‘Be like the rest,’ because in that case I cannot be the purple stripe."
–Epictetus, On Human Freedom
That is Natty reading an excerpt from his introduction for
I am Dandy, along with Winston Chesterfield playing his piano when Kelly and I first visited him in London, Sept 2011.
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Oh, most satisfactory! (polite applause)
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