“What a bore it is, waking up in the morning always the same
person. I wish I were unflinching and emphatic, and had big,
bushy eyebrows and a Message for the Age. I wish I were a deep Thinker, or a great Ventriloquist.
“I should like to be refined and melancholy, the victim of a
hopeless passion; to love in the old, stilted way, with
impossible Adoration and Despair under the pale-faced Moon.
“I wish I could get up; I wish I were the world’s greatest
Violinist. I wish I had lots of silver, and first Editions, and
green ivory.”
Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia (courtesy of James T. Keating)