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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vin Dicarlo)
Tue Aug 9 01:12:39 2016

Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 01:00:18 -0400
From: "Vin Dicarlo" <vin.dicarlo@jdfvy.com>
To:   <mit-talk-mtg@charon.mit.edu>

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   <p>There is one HUGE problem that comes with hitting on women<br /> Harr=
is did. The daughter of three generations of bureaucrats was not likely to =
forget that at one time her father had been junior to me in the same office=
, though in the course of time and the march of opportunity he had his own =
show now, and we nodded to each other on the Mall with an equal sense of th=
e divine right of secretaries. It may seem irrelevant, but I feel compelled=
 to explain here that I had remained a bachelor while Harris had married tw=
ice, and that I had kept up my cricket, while Harris had let his figure tak=
e all the soft curves of middle age. Nevertheless the fact remained. Someti=
mes I fancied it gave a certain piquancy to my relations with his daughter,=
 but I could never believe that the laugh was on my side. If we met at dinn=
er-parties, it would be sometimes Edward Harris and sometimes myself who wo=
uld take the dullest and stoutest woman down. If she fell to him, the next =
in precedence was bestowed upon me, and there might not be a pin to choose =
between them for phlegm and inflation. It is a preposterous mistake to supp=
ose that the married ladies of Simla are in the majority brilliant and fasc=
inating creatures, who say things in French for greater convenience, and le=
ad a man on. After fifteen years I am ready to swear that I have been led o=
n to nothing more compromising than a subscription to the Young Women' s Ch=
ristian Association, though no one could have been more docile or more inte=
lligent. During one viceroyalty of happy memory half a dozen clever and amu=
sing men and women came together in Simla--it was a mere fortuitous occurre=
nce, aided by a joyous ruler who hated being bored as none before or ever s=
ince have hated it--and the place has lived socially upon the reputation of=
 that meteoric term ever since. Whereas the domestic virtues are no more de=
eply rooted anywhere than under the deodars; nor could any one, I hasten to=
 add, chronicle the fact with more profound satisfaction than myself. A din=
ner-party, however, is not a favourable setting for the domestic virtues; i=
t does them so little justice that one could sometimes almost wish them lef=
t at home, and I was talking of Simla dinner-parties, where I have encounte=
red so many. How often have I been consulted as to the best school for boys=
 in England, or instructed as to how much I should let my man charge me for=
 shoe- blacking, or advised as to the most effectual way of preventing the =
butler from stealing my cheroots, while Dora Harris, remote as a star, talk=
ed to a cavalry subaltern about wind-galls and splints! At these moments I =
felt my seniority bitterly; to give Dora to a cavalry subaltern was such pl=
ain waste. It was an infinite pleasure to know any one as well as I seemed =
to know Dora Harris. She, I believe, held no one else upon the same terms o=
f intimacy, though she found women, of course, with whom she fluttered and =
embraced; and while there were, naturally, men with whom I exchanged the ti=
me o' day in terms more or less cordial, I am certain that I kept all my cl=
osest thoughts for her. It is necessary again to know Simla to understand h=
ow our friendship was gilded by the consideration that it was on both sides=
 perfectly spontaneous. Social life in the poor little place is almost a pu=
re farce with the number of its dictated, prompted intimacies, not controll=
ed by general laws of expediency as at home, but each on its own basis of h=
ope and expectancy, broadly and ludicrously obvious as a case by itself. Th=
ere is a conspiracy of stupidity about it, for we are all in the same hat, =
every one of us; there is none so exalted that he does not urgently want a =
post that somebody else can give him. So we continue to exchange our deprec=
iated smiles, and only privately admit that the person who most desires to =
be agreeable to us is the person whom we regard with the greatest suspicion=
 As between Dora Harris and myself there could be, naturally, no ax to gri=
nd. We amused ourselves by looking on penetratingly but tolerantly at the g=
rinding of other people' s. That was a very principal bond between us, that=
 uncompromising clearness with which we looked at the place we lived in, an=
d on the testimony of which we were so certain that we didn' t like it. The=
 women were nearly all so much in heaven in Simla, the men so well satisfie=
d to be there too, at the top of the tree, that our dissatisfaction gave us=
 to one another the merit of originality, almost proved in one another a su=
perior mind. It was not that either of us would have preferred to grill out=
 our days in the plains; we always had a saving clause for the climate, the=
 altitude, the scenery; it was Simla intrinsic, Simla as its other conditio=
ns made it, with which we found such liberal fault. Again I should have to =
explain Simla, at the length of an essay at least, to justify our condemnat=
ion. This difficulty confronts me everywhere. I must ask you instead to ima=
gine a small colony of superior--very superior--officials, of British origi=
n and traditions, set on the top of a hill, years and miles away from liter=
ature, music, pictures, politics, existing like a harem on the gossip of th=
e Viceroy' s intentions, and depending for amusement on tennis and bumble-p=
uppy, and then consider, you yourself, whether you are the sort of person t=
o be unquestionably happy there. If you see no reason to the contrary, pray=
 do not go on. There were times when Dora declared that she couldn' t breat=
he for want of an atmosphere, and times when I looked round and groaned at =
the cheerful congratulatory aridity in every man' s eye--men who had done t=
hings at Oxford in my own year, and come out like me to be mummified into a=
 last state like this. Thank Heaven, there was never any cheerful congratul=
ation in my eye; one could always put there, when the thought inspired it, =
a saving spark of rank ingratitude instead. It was as if we had the most de=
sirable things--roses, cool airs, far snowy ranges--to build what we like w=
ith, and we built Simla-- altitude, 7,000, population 2,500, headquarters o=
f the Government of India during the summer months. An ark it was, of cours=
e; an ark of refuge from the horrible heat that surged below, and I wondere=
d as I climbed the steeps of Summer Hill in search of I. Armour' s inaccess=
ible address, whether he was to be the dove bearing beautiful testimony of =
a world coming nearer. I rejected the simile, however, as over-sanguine; we=
 had been too long abandoned on our Ararat. Chapter 2.III. A dog of no sort=
 of caste stood in the veranda and barked at me offensively. I picked up a =
stone, and he vanished like the dog of a dream into the house. It was such =
a small house that it wasn' t on the municipal map at all: it looked as if =
someone had built it for amusement with anything that was lying about. Neve=
rtheless, it had a name, it was called Amy Villa, freshly painted in white =
letters on a shiny black board, and nailed against the nearest tree in the =
orthodox Simla fashion. It looked as if the owner of the place had named it=
 as a duty towards his tenant, the board was so new, and in that case the r=
eflection presented itself that the tenant might have cooperated to call it=
 something else. It was disconcerting somehow to find that our dove had per=
ched, even temporarily, in Amy Villa. Nor was it soothing to discover that =
the small white object stuck in the corner of the board was Mr. Ingersoll A=
rmour' s card. In Simla we do not stick our cards about in that way at the =
mercy of the wind and the weather; we paint our names neatly under the name=
s of our houses with ' I.C.S.' for Indian Civil Service, or ' P.W.D.' for P=
ublic Works Department, or whatever designation we are entitled to immediat=
ely after, so that there can be no mistake. This strikes newcomers sometime=
s as a little professional, especially when a hand accompanies, pointing; b=
ut it is the only possible way where there are no streets and no numbers, b=
ut where houses are dropped about a hilltop as if they had fallen from a pe=
pper-pot. In sticking his card out like that Mr. Armour seemed to imagine h=
imself au quatrieme or au cinquieme somewhere on the south side of the Sein=
e; it betrayed rather a ridiculous lack of conformity. He was high enough u=
p, however, to give any illusion; I had to stop to find the wind to announc=
e myself. There was nobody else to do it if I except the dog. I walked into=
 the veranda and shouted. Then I saw that one end of it was partly glazed o=
ff, and inside sat a young man in his shirt- sleeves with his back to the d=
oor. In reply he called out, ' That you, Rosario?' and I stood silent, take=
n somewhat aback. There was only one Rosario in Simla, and he was a subordi=
nate in my own office. Again the hateful need to explain. Between subordina=
te clerks and officials in Simla there is a greater gulf fixed than was eve=
r imagined in parable. Besides, Rosario had a plain strain of what we call =
' the country' in him, a plain strain, that is, of the colour of the countr=
y. It was certainly the first time in my official career that I had been mi=
staken for Rosario. Armour turned round and saw me--that I was a stranger. =
He got up at once. ' Oh,' he said, ' I thought it was Rosario. ' It isn' t,=
' I replied, ' my name is Philips. May I ask whether you were expecting Mr.=
 Rosario? I can come again, you know.' ' Oh, it doesn' t matter. Sit down. =
He may drop in or he may not--I rather thought he would today. It' s a pull=
 up, isn' t it, from the Mall? Have a whisky and soda.' I stood on the thre=
shold spellbound. It was just the smell that bound me, the good old smell o=
f oil paints and turpentine and mediums and varnish and new canvas that you=
 never by any chance put your nose into in any part of Asia. It carried me =
back twenty years to old haunts, old friends, old joys, ideals, theories. A=
h, to be young and have a temperament! For I had one then--that instant in =
Armour' s veranda proved it to me forever.</p>=20
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