They're called food ethnographers these days

…I could see at a glance he was one of those snoopopathic meddlers who strut about with a fly-whisk, and a notebook, prodding lies out of the niggers* and over-tipping the dragoman on college funds.

Flashman and the Redskins, p.18, Pan Books edition, 1983.

*Flashman's use of racial epitahs is a continuing problem for more enlightened, contemporary readers. The inclusion of these passages should not be taken as tacit support of his misanthropic, 19th century view of race relations.



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Scholarly dedication

Close by me was Spring, bawling like a madman; he had his pepper-pot revolver in one hand, firing backwards towards the path, and by God, with the other he was trying to drag along one of the amazons he’d bought. the man’s dedication to scholarly research was incredible.

Flash For Freedom!, p.82, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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Strange conversation

I suppose I’ve been in some queer places with some damned odd fellows, but nothing queerer that watching those big black fighting sluts march by while a classically educated slaver skipper babbled to me about anthropological research.

Flash For Freedom!, p.76, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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