On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Mark Landau <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why did so many skin boys get disillusioned? Because, as Robin says, the > images that forced themselves upon us forced us to revise our estimation of > the man. Bevan never really became skin boy. He always wanted to, but was > "spared" that. Most of the skin boys got close enough to the man to see his > underbelly. And it wasn't as pretty as we all thought it was. >
"No man is a hero to his valet-de-chambre"—Marshal Catinat (1637–1712). "Few men have been admired by their domestics".—Montaigne: Essays, book iii. chap. 2.
