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Entry: Cocktails with Paul Johnson Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/cocktails_with_paul_johnson#462 Post contents: "There is a pandemic of self-aggrandisement and Gadarene lust infecting society right now..." Damn! Taki, sometimes you really do know how to turn a phrase in the metres of the OLD school American style (pre-1865). This particular article reads like Poe in his satirical mode, seasoned with a dash of Lincoln's style of scornful indignation. I wonder if, maybe, that peculiar and almost extinct American style of writing might be inseparable from the inspiration of tobacco, of which your confessed use provokes probably even more outrage among today's American intellegentsia than any reference to Sabu, whose ancestors smoked something far more mind-bending than tobacco. Sent at: 2008 07 24