Ngaio Marsh on Sophomores

Ngaio Marsh on Sophomores March 26, 2015

Remington Portable Typewriter

The cub, as Hambledon had called Gordon Palmer, was seventeen years old, dreadfully sophisticated, and entirely ignorant of everything outside the sphere of his sophistication.

— Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder

The cub in question is an insufferable young upperclass lout out on a world tour in the mid-1930’s. It’s the unknown unknowns that get you at that age.

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