The Black Hat & The Knotted Walking Stick

Nobody walks around looking like that anymore. Not unless they’re posers, imitating The Godfather, trying to pull one over on someone or expecting to be papped. He looked like a real Victorian gentleman, not an imitation of one. Surely he wasn’t a ghost. Even his height and ramrod straight posture were out of the ordinary. The masses are hunched again, although voluntarily due to cell phones, and ill-dressed. A tall, well-dressed man who had never hunched over anything electronic in his life was an anachronism on our street.

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