the nature of humanity is that every now and then someone recreates the rational garment*
(text from here, turned up in my efforts to discover what 'jaeger' used as a lowercase adjective means in the frankly surprising number of contexts I've seen it. If anyone has any advances on 'fabric made of undyed wool', I would be interested to hear them)
*probably the inspiration runs the other way round, but I always forget Stephen Maturin wasn't an actual historical figure












