Saturday, July 2, 2011

Mandalay

Anything that smacks of the exotic catches my fancy. This'n smacks.

FX Leyendecker — On the Road to Mandalay
Collier's Magazine — ca 1910

2 comments:

borky said...

"Anything that smacks of the exotic catches my fancy. This'n smacks."

...lots o' smack fancying going on in there, Thomas - you try'n'o tell us something?

Thomas Haller Buchanan said...

Is there some tawdry double meaning to the word that I'm not aware of, me being isolated up here in my ivory tower?