Oscar Wilde on the phenomenon of blogger flophouses

Friday, cigarette #2

To those who ask whether the tappity-tappity soundtrack of living with a blogger (or, worse, three bloggers) is annoying:

My dear Robbie, I assure you that the typewriting machine, when played with expression, is not more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

"When played with expression"—whatever that may mean...