Credulous student

Memoires for a credulous student, concerning an ex Nazi

^ the passage from spelling mistake to allusion is allusively duplicitous.

I can remember the day well. The great man had just got up, and was wearing his favourite swastika pyjamas. He had put on his monocle – on his head, one of his well-known idiosyncracies – and sat down for lunch. He always insisted on having lunch before breakfast, you see. "For what constitutes lunch? May it not be the same as breakfast? Besides, oatcakes taste nicer for lunch." An excellent example of his razor-sharp reasoning. "Good morning" he would say, intimating that in some sense the morning was "good", yet at the same time subtly undermining his own words by releasing a 16-ton weight on your head. He was endowed with a large sense of humour, which he kept in a jar by the door. But I digress – but digression aids digestion, as the old man would say...