it's not manners or lectures about manners that poor people need, but overcoming of pauperism and self-contempt to get organised

The man who tweaked my hat off yesterday had no self-contempt, I can tell you. He and his three friends had organised themselves specifically to get drunk, and at that point had achieved enough pleasant disorganisation to share it (and some vomit, thrown in as a bonus) with those of us who were actually moving about the city with a sense of purpose. They had also obviously spent quite a lot of money on alcohol, so if they were paupers it was only because they'd drunk whatever cash they had.

I make absolutely no apology for admiring the non-alcoholic culture of Muslims.