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It must not be thought that I am a rake. With me the pursuit of women is only part of a much larger plan—the pursuit of pleasure. I am a hedonist. I became a practitioner of hedonism quite by chance a few years ago when I happened to run across the word in the dictionary. “Hedonism,� it said. “The doctrine that pleasure is the sole or chief good in life. The leading advocates of Hedonism in antiquity were the Epicureans and the Cyrenaics.� I can’t tell you how happy I was to find this definition. I had long believed that pleasure was the sole or chief good in life, but this was the first time
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“Talk politics to him,� Pearl suggested. “He’s got an idea that he wants to be governor of Minnesota.� “A commendable ambition. What are his qualifications?� “A strong handshake,� she said. “Anything else?� “He smokes cigars and he talks real loud.� “Clearly the man for the job,� I said.
“Egyptologist,� mumbled my father. “Of all the crazy damn things to be.� “Cheer up,� said my mother. “It could be worse.� “What,� he demanded, “could be worse than an Egyptologist?� My mother thought for a minute. “A white slaver,� she said triumphantly.
