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On Luxuries, by David Warren – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

On Luxuries, by David Warren

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*Image: The Rotting Donkey (L’âne pourri) by Salvador Dalì, 1928 [Centre Pompidou, Paris]

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, Jan. 15, 2021

David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. His blog, Essays in Idleness, is now to be found at: davidwarrenonline.com.

Luxury is a shower, when the hot water is working. I was just reflecting on this, yesterday morning.

There may be greater luxuries, but I am thinking now only of the High Doganate, where I live, and in which I am locked down. (It is a “low-rent” flat in Toronto; where there are no low rents.)

But it is not the only luxury. The chicken curry up here is another; and my lime pickle is to die for. Well, that last remark was hyperbolical.

That is another luxury: to speak with great freedom, even using cuss words sometimes. For no one is listening.

Or I think no one is. I have written before about toasters that are connected to the Internet. I try to take reasonable precautions. I do not own a toaster, and my other appliances are pre-Internet. There is one dangerous exception, however. I am typing on it now. ….

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