The Highfalutin Range

"I'm enjoying the prizes of my success in this life without apologizing for any gaps in my knowledge," Ben Ragan says. "Highfalutin is when you take an edible and play a wind instrument ... Can we do that later? Sure, yeah, absolutely. You're going to want to after the surgery." 'What's a retinue?' he asks his friend Arnie before retracting question two. "'It's right next to your pupil' -- I should have had one,' Mr. Ragan replies. ''You see any of them, damn Pinkertons? Oh, you know I have.'"