314 | Selections from Darkest England | The Idries Shah Podcast
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How to Cope With a Slave's Poor Mane
The encoded message here, to those learned in englishry, is that good behaviour is not native and therefore can be adopted or abandoned at will. But was the slave's assessment right? Did his ce with the englishman have any connection with sensitivity or manners? I asked a former high official of the foreign and colonial office whether such an anecdote could be true, or even possible. He shot his starched lace cuffs and gave me a charming smile. Yes, indeede old boy. You see, the fellow was obviously showing a plum that rusky might have been. G b, trying to find out something. So how to cope? Use up a bit of time so that your secretary
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