Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Weekly Wikipedia Find: The Diogenes Club

I have been to many a gentleman's club. I have never been a member of a gentleman's club. I knew not such a thing was possible. But it has been brought to my attention that there may in fact be multiple definitions for a gentleman's club. One has strippers, one has comfy chairs and cigars. I'm not sure the former allows members. One such of the latter, albeit a fictitious one, is The Diogenes Club. It is a place where a gentleman can go to relax, and read without distraction, and possibly a front for the British Secret Service because of an association with the co-founder, Sherlock Holmes' brother. Ostensibly, it is named for the Greek philosopher, but only ostensibly for it bears no obvious reverence for the Diogenes' known cynicism.

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