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There is a long amiable letter to the young Lafayette in 1779, in which Washington, in a giddy mood, drifts into a reverie about competing for Lafayette's young wife with Lafayette himself--a funny bit of teasing, followed abruptly by a rueful reassurance, worthy of Stendhal himself, that "amidst all the wonders recorded in holy writ no instance can be produced where a Woman from real inclination has preferred an old man."
The modestly ordinary fellow, meanwhile--the owner of a struggling travel-book shop in the eponymous London neighborhood--is impersonated by Hugh Grant, who has made a specialty of teasing ordinary modesty into extraordinary adorableness.
Of course the teasing has not abated, and the weight of my imaginary dunce cap is giving me a headache.
The conclusion, cagey, teasing, is one of Steiner's typically pregnant equivocations.
I don't like values clarification any better in the trendy, therapeutic incarnation that also seems to be popular: schoolwide discussions of teasing one month, being compassionate the next, combatting media stereotypes the one after that.