14.365 Simplifications

[thoreau]

14 January 1854 - "I just had a coat come home from the tailor’s. Ah me! Who am I that should wear this coat? It was fitted upon one of the devil’s angels about my size. Of what use that measuring of me if he did not measure my character, but only the breadth of my shoulders, as it were a peg to hang it on. This is not the figure that I cut. This is the figure the tailor cuts. That presumptuous and impertinent fashion whispered in his ear, so that he heard no word of mine. As if I had said, “Not my will, O Fashion, but thine be done." - The Diary of Henry David Thoreau


Title: NYE - Detail
Flickr User Gryphon Vanderhole
(gryphons_hole's esoteric and bombastic individuality came to mind the instant I read this quote)