There are several ways the ballad of Eve and Smedley is of the Beauty and the Beast variety.
Before exploring this comparison, let’s look into a question we’ve been begging until now.
Why would the scion of one of the wealthiest families in Louisiana go around stinking so?
The blunt answer is he felt like it.
Smedley was right on target very often for a guy everyone read as being off.
Being wealthy and powerful was about having things the way you want to have them, and not about being conventional, responsible, dutiful, or in any way whatsoever servile or slavish.
It is comfortable and convenient to never change your clothes, never or hardly ever taking a bath.
It is comfortable and convenient to communicate using grunts and grumbles. There is minimal effort in not even using signals or hand gestures… Or anything. Let the people around you, let’s politely call them folks, divine what you want. They get it right, you groan with pleasure; they get it wrong, you grunt, as you sometimes do when you are pooping.
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