THE BOURGEOIS ELEMENT AND BACKGROUND
ISN'T it simply wonderful about D'Annunzio enlisting as a common soldier and digging trenches along with the Due D'Abruzzi and those other Italian poets? Or was it D'Abruzzi? Anyhow, it was one of those poets that were always talking about the Superman.
Although, I must say, one doesn't hear so much about the Superman these days, does one? The Superman is going out, you know.
One of my friends — she's quite an advanced thinker, too, and belongs to our little group — told me a year or so ago, "Hermione, I will NEVER marry until I find a Superman!"
"Of course, that is all right, my dear," I said to her, "but how about Genetics?"
Because, you know, the slogan of our little group — that is, one of the slogans — is "Genetics or Spinsterhood!"
It made her quite angry for some reason. She pursed her lips up and acted shocked.
"It is all very well, Hermione," she said, "to discuss Genetics in the ABSTRACT. But to connect the discussion with the marriage of a FRIEND is not, to my mind, the proper thing at all!"
Did you ever hear of anything more utterly in- consistent?
Oh, Consistency! Consistency! Isn't Consist- ency perfectly wonderful!