Tuesday

Well, I am cured of The Malaise and also my bad back, which were clearly linked. Although I still feel like reading Byron and shaving and taking meals in my room. Hopefully, tomorrow I’ll purchase a French vintage shaving set circa 1920. This will go nicely on my antique wash stand (also yet to be purchased) for nice Saturday or Sunday afternoon shaves in my room. The bowl I intend to purchase is quite large, and in fact maybe the shallow dish that’s advertised as a razor dish is for massive hypodermic syringes, and the whole deal is some sort of bloodletting paraphernalia; regardless, given the availability of funds it shall be presently employed as stated above.

Today’s shave was with the Wade and Butcher, the Mme Scodioli soap and the Mme Scodioli After Shave. My experience with this soap is that it doesn’t lather like O Melhor cream, it dissipates a little after application. But I allow, nay! Welcome this, as it’s an indication of its natural nature.

By the way (or BTW for you young folk), I would like to explain my current penchant for the underline. A little while ago I read a letter from Lord Byron sent to his mother. I found the letter hilarious, full of pompous self importance. The young Byron was clearly upset; very many words were shown on the web page in italics. Now, I haven't seen the original letter, and I know nothing of how people wrote in the early eighteen hundreds, but I'm guessing they would have found italicising their handwriting as difficult as I. It's just not that obvious unless it's in a form typed on a typewriter (Google it, young folk, it's an early word-processing machine) or a computer. Or even those things we used to have; 'newspapers' and 'magazines'. Anyway, my thoughts are that Byron's letter actually consisted of underlined words to give emphasis, not italicised words (I'll stand corrected if I can be shown evidence, Sir). So I've started to underline words rather than italicise them. Of course, some forms of communication (facebook) does not allow for the underline, and forces one to use the capital; a gross parody of the underline I say, and wasteful of one's time (as, you would have found, was reading this post).

Here is the link to the letter: Lord Byron: Selected Letters


Razor: Wade and Butcher | Soap: Mme Scodioli ‘Boheme’ | After Shave: Mme Scodioli ‘Step Right Up’

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