Anthony Knows How It Goes Down.

"For a firm- rooted believer in such immeasurable ideas as these, which he punctuated with brisk application of the poker to the brave sparkle and glow of the fire, Anthony has a very pleasant appreciation of the measurable and the finite, and nobody in whom I have acquaintance has so keen a zest for life and its enjoyments as he.
He had given us this evening an admirable dinner, had passed around a port beyond praise, and had illuminated the jolly hours with the light of his infectious optimism...
'I adore life,' he said. 'I find it the most entrancing plaything. It's a delightful game, and as you know very well, the only conceivable way to play a game is to play it extremely seriously. If you say to yourself, "It's only a game", you cease to take the slightest interest in it. You have to know it's only a game, and behave as if it was the one object of existence. I should like it to go on for many years yet..."

Taken from 'In the Tube' by E.F Benson

Over and Out.
ED.