Traveling is more fun-- hell, life is more fun--if you can treat it as a series of impulses.
Bill BrysonAnd so one more to the wandering road. Beyond Blackheath the highway began a steep and curvaceous descent towards Lithgow, where it skirted along hem of the mountains...
Bill BrysonTags: down-under
There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.
Bill BrysonIt is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.
Bill BrysonTags: perspective renewal
Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going "to bed"--that planted too stimulating an image--but merely that they were "retiring." It became effectively impossible to discuss clothing in even a clinical sense without resort to euphemisms. Trousers became "nether integuments" or simply "inexpressibles" and underwear was "linen." Women could refer among themselves to petticoats or, in hushed tones, stockings, but could mention almost nothing else that brushed bare flesh.
Bill BrysonTags: fashion modesty underwear victorian-era
In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the time of the First World War.
Bill BrysonTags: parenthood obedience victorian-era
Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . . . Jackets were tailored with tails in the back, but were cut away in front so that they perfectly framed the groin. It was the first time in history that men's apparel was consciously designed to be more sexy than women's.
Bill BrysonTags: fashion sex-appeal modesty
One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up at suppertime. Now those intakes are almost exactly reversed. Most of us consume the bulk--a sadly appropriate word here--of our calories in the evening and take them to bed with us, a practice that doesn't do any good at all.
Bill BrysonTags: food breakfast dinner lunch calories mealtime
Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
Bill BrysonTags: linguistics
Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.
Bill BrysonTags: environment travel
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