If you’re having trouble grasping Fussell on the phenomenon of X’s, consider Philip Dybvig.
[I play] instruments such as the erhu and the hulusi. I also enjoy weightlifting, Taiji, Qigong, Tui Shou (push hands), and walking…
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Professor Dybvig’s leisure time is spent playing and composing music, cooking, playing taijiquan, and lifting weights.
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October 10th, 2022 at 8:05PM
That guy looks like a werewolf. I don’t think that’s what Fussell had in mind. X’s are fashionably cultured in things obscure to the general public, but they have to be known to other X’s. They couldn’t have a class identity if it was every man in his own yurt playing taijiquan solo.
Also, the awards from China – “Thousand-person plan award”?
October 11th, 2022 at 7:10AM
Rita: If you click on the photo and look at the title I gave it, it says WEREWOLFLONDON.