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The sensible man smokes (say) sixteen pipefuls a day, and all differ in value and satisfaction. In smoking there is, thank heaven, no law of diminishing returns. I may puff4 all day long until I nigresce with the fumes5 and soot7, but the joy loses no savour by repetition. It is true that there is a peculiar8 blithe9 rich taste in the first morning puffs10, inhaled11 after breakfast. (Let me posit12 here the ideal conditions for a morning pipe as I know them.) After your bath, breakfast must be spread in a chamber13 of eastern exposure; let there be hominy and cream, and if possible, brown sugar. There follow scrambled14 eggs, shirred to a lemon-yellow, with toast sliced in triangles, fresh, unsalted butter, and Scotch15 bitter marmalade. Let there be without fail a platter of hot bacon, curly, juicy, fried to the debatable point where softness is overlaid with the faintest crepitation of crackle, of crispyness. If hot Virginia corn pone16 is handy, so much the better. And coffee, two-thirds hot milk, also with brown sugar. It must be permissible17 to call for a second serving of the scrambled eggs; or, if this is beyond the budget, let there be a round of judiciously18 grilled19 kidneys, with mayhap a sprinkle of mushrooms, grown in chalky soil. That is the kind of breakfast they used to serve in Eden before the fall of man and the invention of innkeepers with their crass20 formulae.
After such a breakfast, if one may descend21 into a garden of plain turf, mured about by an occluding22 wall, with an alley23 of lime trees for sober pacing: then and there is the fit time and place for the first pipe of the day. Pack your mixture in the bowl; press it lovingly down with the cushion of the thumb; see that the draught24 is free—and then for your s?ckerhets t?ndstickor! A day so begun is well begun, and sin will flee your precinct. Shog, vile25 care! The smoke is cool and blue and tasty on the tongue; the arch of the palate is receptive to the fume6; the curling vapour ascends26 the chimneys of the nose. Fill your cheeks with the excellent cloudy reek27, blow it forth28 in twists and twirls. The first pipe!
But, as I was saying, joy ends not here. Granted that the after-breakfast smoke excels in savour, succeeding fumations grow in mental reaction. The first pipe is animal, physical, a matter of pure sensation. With later kindlings of the weed the brain quickens, begins to throw out tendrils of speculation29, leaps to welcome problems for thought, burrows30 tingling31 into the unknowable. As the smoke drifts and shreds32 about your neb, your mind is surcharged with that imponderable energy of thought, which cannot be seen or measured, yet is the most potent33 force in existence. All the hot sunlight of Virginia that stirred the growing leaf in its odorous plantation34 now crackles in that glowing dottel in your briar bowl. The venomous juices of the stalk seep35 down the stem. The most precious things in the world are also vivid with poison.
Was Kant a smoker? I think he must have been. How else could he have written "The Critique of Pure Reason"? Tobacco is the handmaid of science, philosophy, and literature. Carlyle eased his indigestion and snappish temper by perpetual pipes. The generous use of the weed makes the enforced retirement36 of Sing Sing less irksome to forgers, second-story men, and fire bugs37. Samuel Butler, who had little enough truck with churchmen, was once invited to stay a week-end by the Bishop38 of London. Distrusting the entertaining qualities of bishops39, and rightly, his first impulse was to decline. But before answering the Bishop's letter he passed it to his manservant for advice. The latter (the immortal40 Alfred Emery Cathie) said: "There is a crumb41 of tobacco in the fold of the paper, sir: I think you may safely go." He went, and hugely enjoyed himself.
There is a Bible for smokers42, a book of delightful43 information for all acolytes44 of this genial45 ritual, crammed46 with wit and wisdom upon the art and mystery we cherish. It is called "The Social History of Smoking," by G.L. Apperson. Alas47, a friend of mine, John Marshall (he lives somewhere in Montreal or Quebec), borrowed it from me, and obstinately48 declines to return it. If he should ever see this, may his heart be loosened and relent. Dear John, I wish you would return that book. (Canadian journals please copy!)
I was contending that the joy of smoking increases harmonically with the weight of tobacco consumed, within reasonable limits. Of course the incessant49 smoker who is puffing50 all day long sears his tongue and grows callous51 to the true delicacy52 of the flavour. For that reason it is best not to smoke during office hours. This may be a hard saying to some, but a proper respect for the art impels53 it. Not even the highest ecclesiast can be at his devotions always. It is not those who are horny with genuflection54 who are nearest the Throne of Grace. Even the Pope (I speak in all reverence) must play billiards55 or trip a coranto now and then!
After breakfast: 2 pipes
Before dinner: 2 pipes
Between dinner and bed: 10 to 12 pipes
(Cigars and cigarettes as occasion may require.)
The matter of smoking after dinner requires consideration. If your meal is a heavy, stupefying anodyne58, retracting59 all the humane60 energies from the skull61 in a forced abdominal62 mobilization to quell63 a plethora64 of food into subjection and assimilation, there is no power of speculation left in the top storeys. You sink brutishly into an armchair, warm your legs at the fire, and let the leucocytes and phagocytes fight it out. At such times smoking becomes purely65 mechanical. You imbibe66 and exhale67 the fumes automatically. The choicest aromatic68 blends are mere69 fuel. Your eyes see, but your brain responds not. The vital juices, generous currents, or whatever they are that animate70 the intelligence, are down below hatches fighting furiously to annex71 and drill into submission72 the alien and distracting mass of food that you have taken on board. They are like stevedores73, stowing the cargo74 for portability. A little later, however, when this excellent work is accomplished75, the bosun may trill his whistle, and the deck hands can be summoned back to the navigating76 bridge. The mind casts off its corporeal77 hawsers78 and puts out to sea. You begin once more to live as a rational composition of reason, emotion, and will. The heavy dinner postpones79 and stultifies80 this desirable state. Let it then be said that light dining is best: a little fish or cutlets, white wine, macaroni and cheese, ice cream and coffee. Such a régime restores the animal health, and puts you in vein81 for a continuance of intellect.
Smoking is properly an intellectual exercise. It calls forth the choicest qualities of mind and soul. It can only be properly conducted by a being in full possession of the five wits. For those who are in pain, sorrow, or grievous perplexity it operates as a sovereign consoler, a balm and balsam to the harassed83 spirit; it calms the fretful, makes jovial84 the peevish85. Better than any ginseng in the herbal, does it combat fatigue86 and old age. Well did Stevenson exhort87 virgins88 not to marry men who do not smoke.
Now we approach the crux89 and pinnacle90 of this inquirendo into the art and mystery of smoking. That is to say, the last pipe of all before the so-long indomitable intellect abdicates91, and the body succumbs92 to weariness.
No man of my acquaintance has ever given me a satisfactory definition of living. An alternating systole and diastole, says physiology93. Chlorophyl becoming xanthophyl, says botany. These stir me not. I define life as a process of the Will-to-Smoke: recurring94 periods of consciousness in which the enjoyability of smoking is manifest, interrupted by intervals96 of recuperation.
Now if I represent the course of this process by a graph (the co-ordinates being Time and the Sense-of-by-the-Smoker-enjoyed-Satisfaction) the curve ascends from its origin in a steep slant97, then drops away abruptly98 at the recuperation interval95. This is merely a teutonic and pedantic99 mode of saying that the best pipe of all is the last one smoked at night. It is the penultimate moment that is always the happiest. The sweetest pipe ever enjoyed by the skipper of the Hesperus was the one he whiffed just before he was tirpitzed by the poet on that angry reef.
The best smoking I ever do is about half past midnight, just before "my eyelids100 drop their shade," to remind you again of your primary school poets. After the toils101, rebuffs, and exhilarations of the day, after piaffing busily on the lethal102 typewriter or schreibmaschine for some hours, a drowsy103 languor104 begins to numb105 the sense. In dressing106 gown and slippers107 I seek my couch; Ho, Lucius, a taper108! and some solid, invigorating book for consideration. My favourite is the General Catalogue of the Oxford109 University Press: a work so excellently full of learning; printed and bound with such eminence110 of skill; so noble a repository or Thesaurus of the accumulated treasures of human learning, that it sets the mind in a glow of wonder. This is the choicest garland for the brain fatigued111 with the insignificant112 and trifling113 tricks by which we earn our daily bread. There is no recreation so lovely as that afforded by books rich in wisdom and ribbed with ripe and sober research. This catalogue (nearly 600 pages) is a marvellous précis of the works of the human spirit. And here and there, buried in a scholarly paragraph, one meets a topical echo: "THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE GLOSSARY114: by C.T. ONIONS: Mr. Onions' glossary, offered at an insignificant price, relieves English scholarship of the necessity of recourse to the lexicon115 of Schmidt." Lo, how do even professors and privat-docents belabour one another!
With due care I fill, pack, and light the last pipe of the day, to be smoked reverently116 and solemnly in bed. The thousand brain-murdering interruptions are over. The gentle sibilance of air drawn117 through the glowing nest of tobacco is the only sound. With reposeful118 heart I turn to some favourite entry in my well-loved catalogue.
"HENRY PEACHAM'S COMPLEAT GENTLEMAN. Fashioning him absolut in the most necessary and Commendable119 Qualities concerning Minde, or Body, that may be required in a Noble Gentleman. Wherunto is annexed120 a Description of the order of a Maine Battaile or Pitched Field, eight severall wayes, with the Art of Limming and other Additions newly Enlarged. Printed from the edition of 1634; first edition, 1622, with an introduction by G. S. Gordon. 1906. Pp xxiv + 16 unpaged + 262. 7s. 6d. net. At the Clarendon Press."
Or this:
"H. HIS DEVISES, for his owne exercise, and his Friends pleasure. Printed from the edition of 1581, with an introduction. 1906. Pp xviii + 104. 5s. net."
O excellent H! Little did he dream that his devises (with an introduction by Professor Sir Walter Raleigh) would be still giving his Friends pleasure over three hundred years later. The compiler of the catalogue says here with modest and pardonable pride "strongly bound in exceptionally tough paper and more than once described by reviewers as leather. Some of the books are here printed for the first time, the rest are reproductions of the original editions, many having prefaces by good hands."
One o'clock is about to chime in the near-by steeple, but my pipe and curiosity are now both going strong.
"THE CURES OF THE DISEASED in remote Regions, preventing Mortalitie incident in Forraine Attempts of the English Nation. 1598. The earliest English treatise121 on tropical diseases. 1915. 1s. 6d. net."
Is that not the most interesting comment on the English colonial enterprises in Elizabeth's reign82? And there is no limit to the joys of this marvellous catalogue. How one dreams of the unknown delights of "Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery Books," or "Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340" (which means, as I figure it, the "Backbite122 of Conscience"), or "Origenis Hexaplorum quae supersunt sive Veterum Interpretum Graecorum in totum Vetus Testamentum Fragmenta, edidit F. Field. 1865. Two volumes ￡6 6s. net" or "Shuckford's Sacred and Profane123 History of the World, from the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the death of Sardanapalus, and to the Declension of The Kingdom of Judah and Israel under the Reigns124 of Ahaz and Pekah, with the Creation and Fall of Man. 1728, reprinted 1848. Pp 550. 10s. net."
But I dare not force my hobbies on you further. One man's meat is another's caviar. I dare not even tell you what my favourite tobaccos are, for recently when I sold to a magazine a very worthy125 and excellent poem entitled "My Pipe," mentioning the brands I delight to honour, the editor made me substitute fictitious126 names for my dearly loved blends. He said that sound editorial policy forbids mentioning commercial products in the text of the magazine.
But tobacco, thank heaven, is not merely a "commercial product." Let us call on Salvation127 Yeo for his immortal testimony128:
"When all things were made none was made better than this; to be a lone129 man's companion, a bachelor's friend, a hungry man's food, a sad man's cordial, a wakeful man's sleep, and a chilly130 man's fire, sir; while for stanching131 of wounds, purging132 of rheum, and settling of the stomach, there's no herb like unto it under the canopy133 of heaven."
And by this time the bowl is naught134 but ash. Even my dear General Catalogue begins to blur135 before me. Slip it under the pillow; gently and kindly136 lay the pipe in the candlestick, and blow out the flame. The window is open wide: the night rushes in. I see a glimpse of stars ... a distant chime ... and fall asleep with the faint pungence of the Indian herb about me.
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