Word: vagabondism
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...Vagabond has a great sense of what he missed in not being born in the Middle Ages missed-but that is a detail. The Vagabond's heart longs for the sight of glistening helmets and of faire ladyes beneath silken canopies, for the savor of oxen roasted whole in the castle hall, for the hilarious joy of skating with all London on the frozen Thames. But most of all his heart longs for the sight of a Friar Tuck downing his ale in a country tavern...
...degrees of men who have walked the earth the Vagabond is drawn most to those monks and minor canons who hid beneath their flowing robes (or displayed about their flowing bowls) a rare humor, boundless Joie de vivre, and a fine disdain for official authority...
...When the Vagabond goes to the Music. Building this afternoon at four-thirty to sing medieval church music, he will rejoice to imitate the careless abandon with which the uncontrollable monks sang their parts. He will feel deep gratitude to the men whose refusal to obey the binding rules of the church made possible the development of the materials of modern music and prepared the way immediately for Palestinian and Bach. He will be grateful, too, that the discordance of the medieval descants will keep his neighbor from noticing it too easily when the Vagabond sings...
...Vagabond danced upon the point of a needle, he was so very happy. There before his eyes lay a great feast spread. Julian Coolidge in admiral's uniform was drinking champagne out of Field Marshal Apted's sliper, and liking it. Marriman was eating a freshman's hat with caviar and coffee. There was an effulgent unity which clung to his person like a baltimore enreole. The President mounted a stop ladder to read from an early annotated edition of the daily CRIMSON. The Vagabond swooned. It was more than angel tissue could bear...
Next morning the Vagabond awoke. His eye lit on the empty bottle. It had been Absorbine Junior after all. He certainly had put his athlete's foot in it that time...