Asbestoswear by Quentin Crisp:Feather Boa
Feather Boa
The human race is in danger of being
exterminated by its weakest line--macho man, a
physically strong, emotionally volatile, and
intellectually limited creature who is now
obsolete in evolutionary terms, but who is
capable of causing the death of all of us through
his paranoid plots and penchant for violence.
He cannot be out-gunned, outbombed,
outmissled; he can only be outwitted by those of
greater guile. The politics of manners goes far
beyond the realms of behavior mapped by Emily
Post and Amy Vanderbilt.
Quentin Crisp