- Pleasures of Ignorance
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From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as cats and weed to why we hate insects and morals of beans.
- Chapters
- The Pleasures of Ignorance
- The Herring Fleet
- The Betting Man
- The Hum of Insects
- Cats
- May
- New Year Prophecies
- On Knowing the Difference
- The Intellectual Side of Horse-Racing
- Why We Hate Insects
- Virtue
- June
- On Feeling Gay
- In the Train
- The Most Curious Animal
- The Old Indifference
- Eggs: An Easter Homily
- Enter The Spring
- The Daredevil Barber
- Weeds: An Appreciation
- A Juror in Waiting
- The Three-halfpenny Bit
- The Morals of Beans
- On Seeing a Joke
- Going to The Derby
- This Blasted World