“If Stuart is a freak... it is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. It is because he has had the almost unbelievable social adroitness to be able to fit in smoothly with an educated, soft-skinned person like myself and not make me frightened half to death. If Stuart's a freak, I salute freaks.” #AlexanderMasters #StuartALifeBackwards 🏰🏙🌈❤ (presso Kensington Palace)

I'm reading this book st the moment, A Life Discarded by Alexander Masters, and it's just the most wonderful, strange, playful thing: a biography of an unidentified (at first) person whose lifetime diaries were rescued from a skip. Apart from my intense feelings of envy that I was not the one to find that glorious treasure, it's feeding so many different areas of interest: investigation, people watching, art, eccentricity. Can't bear to think of finishing it. #AlexanderMasters #4thEstate