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The Journal of a Disappointed Man
·
W. N. P. Barbellion
237
August
7.
Two
Adventures
On
a
'bus
the
other
day
a
woman
with
a
baby
sat
opposite,
the
baby
bawled,
and
the
woman
at
once
began
to
unlace
herself,
exposing
a
large,
red
udder,
which
she
swung
into
the
baby's
face.
The
infant,
however,
continued
to
cry
and
the
woman
said,--
"Come
on,
there's
a
good
boy--if
you
don't,
I
shall
give
it
to
the
gentleman
opposite."
Do
I
look
ill-nourished?
"'Arma
virumque
cano,'"
a
beggar
said
to
me
this
morning
in
the
High
Street,
"or
as
the
boy
said,
'Arms
and
the
man
with
a
dog,'
mistaking
the
verb
for
the
noun.
Oh!
yes,
sir,
I
remember
my
Latin.
Of
course,
I
feel
it's
rather
invidious
my
coming
to
you
like
this,
but
everything
is
absolutely
'non
est'
with
me,"
and
so
on.
"My
dear
sir,"
I
answered
expansively,
"I
am
as
poor
as
you
are.
You
at
least
have
seen
better
days
you
say--but
I
never
have."
He
changed
in
a
minute
his
cringeing
manner
and
rejoined:
"No,
I
shouldn't
think
you
had,"
eyeing
me
critically
and
slinking
off.
Am
I
so
shabby?
August
8.
By
Jove!
I
hope
I
live!
...
Why
does
an
old
crock
like
myself
go
on
living?
It
causes
me
genuine
amazement.
I
feel
almost
ashamed
of
myself
because
I
am
not
yet
dead
seeing
that
so
many
of
my
full-blooded
contemporaries
have
perished
in
this
War.
I
am
so
grateful
for
being
allowed
to
live
so
long
that
nothing
that
happens
to
me
except
death
could
upset
me
much.
I
should
be
happy
in
a
coal
mine.
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