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...could one deal with such people? Vag was indeed perplexed, especially when the rational world he lived in was threatened by a direct attack...
When he had decided last spring term to stay on in Cambridge for the summer, rather than motor to Mexico with his mother, Vag did not realize the import of his choice. Now he was in the middle of a world he could not come to terms with--a world far distant from the sedate evenings spent with a cribbage board that sparked his proper life...
Conversation, an exact art cultivated behind the somber oak doors of his club, reached grotesque proportions when it moved outdoors to the punch bowl, or shade tree, or Wigglesworth steps. Restraint, always a gentleman's religion, had given way to a type of familiarity which Vag thought rude and unpleasant. Grossly unpleasant...
...confined by his own choosing in a world where all taste was poor taste, Vag naturally felt sullen. To belong in such an environment would require too much of a sacrifice. The inhibited perspective cultivated since school days was too ingrained to be surmounted. And the healthy pre-occupations which he too often witnessed down by the Charles violated the precious ethic of this well-mannered...
...Vag relit his pipe and turned slightly. He could see the Yard now, and what an unpleasant sight it was. Beneath him a couple appeared to be conducting some sort of pagan rite which struck Vag as being obviously suggestive...