Jonah.
The gadabout. The dedicated dilettante.
Search
Jonah’s pockets and find these items:
A monogrammed handkerchief.
The "Wyndham" pocket-knife.
A Penguin copy of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal.
A ha’penny.
A leather pouch containing ten subway tokens.
Luis.
The flaneur.
In Luis’ many pockets, among other things, are these
items:
A ticket to the 1919 World’s Fair.
An unopened bottle of “Moxie” soda pop.
A ragged page of lyric verse.
A cheese sandwich, sliced lengthwise, in a ziplock bag.
A spying-glass.
Anna.
The seeker of curiosities.
Anna
carries the following things with her:
A book of the lives of the saints.
A silver thimble.
A crumpled print depicting St. Francis of Assisi among
the birds.
A small bottle of smelling-salts.
Stefan.
The student. The artist.
Stefan’s shoulder-bag and pockets contain these items:
A university student card.
Ten paintbrushes, bound by an elastic band.
A can of silver spray-paint.
Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair.
A walkman.
Amelia.
The alchemist. The apothecarist.
Anna
carries with her:
Ten little bottles of brightly-colored fluids.
A receipt from Zellers.
A bundle of strange-looking twigs.
A tortoiseshell pocket-magnifier.
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The images for
this page were furnished by Harrod's Stores 1895 Catalogue.
Text was supplied by Mark
Slutsky.
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