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...patron saint of gag men. He was a celebrated player of comedy parts in the plays of Shakespeare, Congreve, Jonson, Fielding, etc. His name, after his death in 1738, was fastened to a book of 247 jokes, sayings, anecdotes (Joe Miller's Jests; or The Wits Vade-Mecum). It was a best-seller and, with hundreds of added jokes, inevitably became the comedian's Bible...
...there is a golden book, the vade mecum of everything worth keeping by in life, it is the memories of men known. This is the Vagabond's creed. Today his spirit will haunt old McKinlock, and perhaps will gain, as William Butler Yeats himself was the gainer from those afternoons at the stable beside Kelmscott House...
...dread of dying ordinary." This longing, this dread induce men to follow strange teachers, strange doctrines. Hipped on some, they hobble along on others. But the true pilgrim's progress is not forwarded so much by crutches as by a comforting rod & staff. Such a vade mecum Abbe Dimnet gracefully provides in the form of the True, the Beautiful and the Good, as approved by philosophers, improved by artists, lived by the saints. To discover about the True, discover Truth's elation, it is necessary for a man to read philosophy, more necessary for him to think philosophically...
...Muscle, You're Not the Domestic Type, An Ugly Old Thing Like Me, What Do You Think Your Husband's Doing?, Music Gets Me. Author Hahn calls Seductio ad Absurdum a beginner's handbook, announces a course for advanced students in preparation: The Seducers Veni Mecum...
...College Bestiary" should be a vade mecum for every underclassman. It is an accumulation of wisdom, sorted, labelled, illuminated, and, best of all, tucked away in an idiom that by its vigor and raciness will disarm even those who would like to shoot a preacher at sight. Wherever there is a saving grace of ambition in a student; these "characters" of college types and their glosses will be useful...