Greetings and salutations, Indianapolis. Or as they say in the Balkans, Bunã dzua. I am humbled and beholden to learn that I will soon join your fair bastion of Midwestern virtue.
I suppose you're here to ascertain a dollop about me, no? My blushes. Very well then.
[sips from snifter of Chivas Regal Royal Salute]
I am a high-seas sailor first, a scholar second, and a gentleman always ... I spend much of my summers engaged in archaeological digs in northern Ecuador ... I idolize Ayn Rand, Copernicus and Trey Anastasio ... I'm on the International Board for the Advancement of Solar Power ... my mother was a professional bullfighting protester from the south of Portugal, my father a molecular biologist at CERN ... I support a universal flat tax, but only conditionally ... I am skilled in the low post, but also in the diagnosis and treatment of left ventricular hypertrophy ... my secret, irresistible vice is Bavarian veal cutlets in a creamy cherry sauce (preferably with a stout, hickory-scented port) ... I disdain tomfoolery and dullards ... and finally, I compare my basketball prowess to an arthritic Robert Parrish.
I do not wish to speak of myself any further, lest I present myself as vainglorious and off-putting. We shall to grow to become familiar with each other in the weeks to come, of that I am sure.
Now, if you will excuse me, I must adjourn. As the Burmese theologians might say, Twáme naw. And may Peace be with you.
— Augustus Irwin ("Roy") Hibbert, IV
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I suppose you're here to ascertain a dollop about me, no? My blushes. Very well then.
[sips from snifter of Chivas Regal Royal Salute]
I am a high-seas sailor first, a scholar second, and a gentleman always ... I spend much of my summers engaged in archaeological digs in northern Ecuador ... I idolize Ayn Rand, Copernicus and Trey Anastasio ... I'm on the International Board for the Advancement of Solar Power ... my mother was a professional bullfighting protester from the south of Portugal, my father a molecular biologist at CERN ... I support a universal flat tax, but only conditionally ... I am skilled in the low post, but also in the diagnosis and treatment of left ventricular hypertrophy ... my secret, irresistible vice is Bavarian veal cutlets in a creamy cherry sauce (preferably with a stout, hickory-scented port) ... I disdain tomfoolery and dullards ... and finally, I compare my basketball prowess to an arthritic Robert Parrish.
I do not wish to speak of myself any further, lest I present myself as vainglorious and off-putting. We shall to grow to become familiar with each other in the weeks to come, of that I am sure.
Now, if you will excuse me, I must adjourn. As the Burmese theologians might say, Twáme naw. And may Peace be with you.
— Augustus Irwin ("Roy") Hibbert, IV
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