A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with troll-my-dames

... of nicknames entered my life just as he was leaving it. Fish Face. Scrambled-Egg Lips. Dick Snout. Dufus. Nigger-nose. Bottom Feeder. Almost Monster.

Obedience to the rules of the dance is more poetic than military, more pomp than mundane legalism—for skilled dancers are less concerned with the jot and tittle of their regimen than with the perfect harmony of their movement.

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