Galsworthy, ‘A Sad Affair’, On Forsyte ‘Change, p. 88.

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James Crenshaw, Ecclesiastes (London: SCM Press, 1988), pp. 28ff.

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Jennifer Koosed, (Per)mutations of Qoheleth: Reading the Body in the Book (New York and London: T&T Clark, 2006).

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Galsworthy, ‘A Sad Affair’, On Forsyte ‘Change, p. 88.

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Samuel Beeton, Beeton’s Manners of Polite Society: For Ladies, Gentlemen, and Families (London: Ward Lock, 1879), pp. 126-27.

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Brent Shannon, The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860-1914 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006), p. 130.

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See 12.9 and Thomas Krüger, Qoheleth: A Commentary (trans. O.C. Dean; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004), p. 207 n. 9e, for the sense of ןקת as ‘put into a good order, arrange a collection of proverbs (thus HALOT)’ – and thus my ‘suit out’.

See 12.9 and Thomas Krüger, Qoheleth: A Commentary (trans. O.C. Dean; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004), p. 207 n. 9e, for the sense of ןקת as ‘put into a good order, arrange a collection of proverbs (thus HALOT)’ – and thus my ‘suit out’.)| false
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Baudelaire, p. 26.

Shannon, p. 130.

Ian Kelly, Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Dandy (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005), p. 7.

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T.A. Perry, Dialogues with Koheleth: The Book of Ecclesiastes, Translation and Commentary (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993), p. 38; Koosed, p. 24.

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Krüger, Qoheleth, p. 42.

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Norbert Lohfink, Qoheleth (Continental Commentary series; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003), p. 19.

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Ibid., p. 16.

Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, p. 233.

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Carlyle, p. 204.

Carlyle, p. 214.

Carlyle, p. 217.

Carlyle, pp. 218-19. The colonial name for the native southern African is now considered pejorative – as might be the generalization about the size of his backside. But Carlyle is in fact mocking the fashionable white man’s affected tone and his assumption that there is a single and superior ‘delicate taste’. I leave it to the reader to determine whether or not ‘posterial luxuriance’ is necessarily a negative physical characteristic.

Carlyle, p. 179.

Carlyle, p. 24.

Carlyle, pp. 211-12.

Carlyle, pp. 6, 14-16. Equally, Qoheleth’s wealth of experience situates him well above the fray.

Carlyle, pp. 214, 215.