Nicotine and Alcohol

[DonH]

"The Man Who Gave Up Smoking" is a Mulliner tale, and may be an overall
argument in which PGW justified his life-long pipe smoking to himself.
However, it is an ingenious exercise in Induction, and worthy for that
alone.
Its counterpart may be "The Story of William", another Mulliner tale,
which could equally be titled "The Man Who Took Up Drinking"; how a
teetotaler took to drink to drown his sorrows on being dumped by his
girlfriend.
He woke up in bed after the binge, and attributed the various results of
the great Californian earthquake to the effect of drink on his senses - all
must surely be illusion. How this won him his beloved back ...well, read
the story.

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Post by DonH
"The Man Who Gave Up Smoking" is a Mulliner tale, and may be an overall
argument in which PGW justified his life-long pipe smoking to himself.
   However, it is an ingenious exercise in Induction, and worthy for that
alone.
   Its counterpart may be "The Story of William", another Mulliner tale,
which could equally be titled "The Man Who Took Up Drinking"; how a
teetotaler took to drink to drown his sorrows on being dumped by his
girlfriend.
   He woke up in bed after the binge, and attributed the various results of
the great Californian earthquake to the effect of drink on his senses - all
must surely be illusion.  How this won him his beloved back ...well, read
the story.

Indeed.
Smoking to Wodehouse, was as natural as having tea or coffee.
His writing in the current time would have been politically and health
wise incorrect .

Swordfish

[Patrick Scheible]

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Post by DonH
"The Man Who Gave Up Smoking" is a Mulliner tale, and may be an overall
argument in which PGW justified his life-long pipe smoking to himself.
   However, it is an ingenious exercise in Induction, and worthy for that
alone.
   Its counterpart may be "The Story of William", another Mulliner tale,
which could equally be titled "The Man Who Took Up Drinking"; how a
teetotaler took to drink to drown his sorrows on being dumped by his
girlfriend.
   He woke up in bed after the binge, and attributed the various results of
the great Californian earthquake to the effect of drink on his senses - all
must surely be illusion.  How this won him his beloved back ...well, read
the story.

Indeed.
Smoking to Wodehouse, was as natural as having tea or coffee.
His writing in the current time would have been politically and health
wise incorrect .

Imagine how long he would have lived if only he hadn't taken up smoking
and drinking!

-- Patrick

[DonH]

Post by DonH
"The Man Who Gave Up Smoking" is a Mulliner tale, and may be an overall
argument in which PGW justified his life-long pipe smoking to himself.
However, it is an ingenious exercise in Induction, and worthy for that
alone.
Its counterpart may be "The Story of William", another Mulliner tale,
which could equally be titled "The Man Who Took Up Drinking"; how a
teetotaler took to drink to drown his sorrows on being dumped by his
girlfriend.
He woke up in bed after the binge, and attributed the various results of
the great Californian earthquake to the effect of drink on his senses -
all must surely be illusion. How this won him his beloved back ...well,
read the story.

# The Man Who Gave Up Smoking Is - "an ingenious exercise in Induction" - as
I say above, but further comment may be warranted.
Ignatius Mulliner is wooing Hermione Rossiter, and proposing marriage on
a regular basis, only to be as routinely rejected. Unable to fathom the
reason, he asks her two brothers, in turn; who say it is because he
resembles the other brother.
As the brothers are totally dissimilar, Ignatius lists their attributes,
only to find that Heavy Smoking is all they have in common - and with him.
At the end of the story, Hermione herself tells Ignatius the reason. She
dislikes ukuleles, which both Ignatius and George play; she also dislikes
sloppy dressers, a common factor twixt Ignatius and Cyprian.
Ignatius promises to remedy both defects.
Note: Ignatius' original listing wasn't exhaustive, or he may have
twigged, especially if listing his own. But then, no story.