“The time has come,” the walrus said, “to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships – and sealing wax – of cabbages and kings” Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, (1886) When I was a kid my dad read Alice in Wonderland out loud to me. At the point that he came to…
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Minutia: The Scale of Warmth
One of my favorite etiquette books is The Social Fetich by Lady Agnes Geraldine Grove (1908). Now, this isn’t a comprehensive book covering lots of topics. Rather the author covers just a few of what she considers areas of concern, some of which are pretty darn obscure. Case in point, a chapter on beginning and…
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