Statisticians, who have gone carefully into the figures - the name of Schwertfeger of Berlin is one that springs to the mind - inform us that of young men who have just received a negative answer to a proposal of marriage (and with these must, of course, be grouped those whose engagements have been broken off) 6.08 per cent clench their hands and stare silently before them, 12.02 take the next train to the Rocky Mountains and shoot grizzlies, while 11.07 sit down at their desks and become modern novelists.
(from Hot Water, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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