No longer a fashionable read, Dorothy L Sayers wrote a series of detective novels and short stories whose protagonist is Lord Peter Wimsey ( without the h). He is quite the polymath, whose talents include, apart from criminology, considerable intelligence and athletic ability, collecting incunabula (books from the earliest days of printing). He is an experienced church bell-ringer. He is an expert on matters of food (and especially wine), male fashion, and classical music. He excels at the piano, including Bach's works for keyboard instruments. Lord Peter likes driving fast.
Would he be considered whimsical today or am elitist toff?
No longer a fashionable read, Dorothy L Sayers wrote a series of detective novels and short stories whose protagonist is Lord Peter Wimsey ( without the h). He is quite the polymath, whose talents include, apart from criminology, considerable intelligence and athletic ability, collecting incunabula (books from the earliest days of printing). He is an experienced church bell-ringer. He is an expert on matters of food (and especially wine), male fashion, and classical music. He excels at the piano, including Bach's works for keyboard instruments. Lord Peter likes driving fast.
Would he be considered whimsical today or am elitist toff?
Excellent reference! She’s so out of fashion I forgot I wrote about her in 2020! And that she came up with some of the best beer advertisements ever!
https://wit.substack.com/p/cloaked-in-the-sacred-duty-of-flippancy?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Dear Benjamin,
Great piece as always! My fave from this week:
“Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.”
— Tom Robbins
And I love this one as well:
“No man is exempt from saying silly things; the misfortune is to say them deliberately.”
— Michel de Montaigne
Though I'm not sure for whom it is misfortunate!
Thank you for sharing!
Love
Myq
A general misfortune, I’m guessing?
I see your Count Binface, and raise you Boaty McBoatface