Sunday, April 23, 2017

Look Dobbin its got an astrolabe!

Look Dobbin its got an astrolabe!


I saw this poster recently, from which I have trimmed off the product name out of sheer spite. 




Elegance is an attitude. Thats what Simon Baker thinks, and you can tell he means it, because hes signed his name under it. And then typed his name under that, in case you cant read his signature. Simon Baker, you will discover if you Google him, is an incredibly famous actor; and in his important opinion elegance is an attitude. Elegance is not something you can learn, or buy, or get from owning a particular product, presumably... its an attitude. Its hard to describe what that attitude is, but you know it when you see it.  Its wearing a suit and tie when you show your watch to a horse. Its signing your name under all the philosophical quotes you come up with, like Aristotle would have done if hed thought of it. Its being in black and white. Its an attitude. Simon Baker has it, obviously. Simon Bakers horse has it. Maybe three or four other people in the world have it. Everyone else will just have to try and make up for their innate lack of it by buying a ridiculously over-priced watch. 

Not me, though. Because as it happens, I too am one of those lucky possessors of that rarest of attitudes... elegance.






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