My cosmopolite was named E. Rushmore Coglan, and he will be heard from
next summer at Coney Island. He is to establish a new “attraction”
there, he informed me, offering kingly diversion. And then his
conversation rang along parallels of latitude and longitude. He took the
great, round world in his hand, so to speak, familiarly, contemptuously,
and it seemed no larger than the seed of a Maraschino cherry in a table
d’hote grape fruit. He spoke disrespectfully of the equator, he skipped
from continent to continent, he derided the zones, he mopped up the high
seas with his napkin. With a wave of his hand he would speak of a
certain bazaar in Hyderabad. Whiff! He would have you on skis in
Lapland. Zip! Now you rode the breakers with the Kanakas at
Kealaikahiki. Presto! He dragged you through an Arkansas post-oak swamp,
let you dry for a moment on the alkali plains of his Idaho ranch, then
whirled you into the society of Viennese archdukes
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