You're a nice sensible clerk who've
had enough real work to do to keep you from being afraid that
other people will think you're commonplace. You don't have to
coddle yourself into working enough to earn a living by talking
about temperament.
"Why, these Interesting People--You find 'em in London and
New York and San Francisco just the same. They're convinced
they're the wisest people on earth. There's a few artists and
a bum novelist or two always, and some social workers. The
particular bunch that it amuses me to hate just now--and that I
apparently can't do without--they gather around Olympia Johns,
who makes a kind of salon out of her rooms on Great James
Street, off Theobald's Road.... They might just as well be in
New York; but they're even stodgier. They don't get sick of the
game of being on intellectual heights as soon as New-Yorkers do.
"I'll have to take you there. It's a cheery sensation, you
know, to find a man who has some imagination, but who has been
unspoiled by Interesting People, and take him to hear them
wamble.
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