I have come to the realisation that the most whimsical thing I own is my tweed jacket. "Really, Dormouse?" you might be saying to yourself, "A tweed jacket? Whimsical? That's impossible!" And generally you'd be right, for what is a tweed jacket but a marker of pretension? Who wears tweed jackets? Only hipsters and Literature professors. But my jacket has a rabbit tail. From the front I look respectable (and perhaps a big smallish as the jacket is too big) but as soon as I turn 'round there's a puffy little cottontail attached to the back. We tacked it on for Halloween and never quite had the heart to remove it.
When I teach at university I think I will attach animal tails to the backs of my professional jackets. My students would enjoy it. According to the King of the Hipsters the only way a tweed jacket suits me is with an animal tail attached to it. I approve.
-The Dormouse
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