Originally Posted by gunnels

Not smoking is the best thing I can do to accommodate my social reclusivity. I have avoided many a burnt-out middle-aged man on my way to school by rejecting his request to bum.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.