There is also an outmoded Daimler, which is the property of Gilbert C. Browne, the Banker, who has a sentimental fondness for ancient motorcar.
Yet the rationalism, religious skepticism, concern for man in society, historical and cultural sensitivity, and fondness for ancient lore and customs that pervade his writings also pervaded Chinese intellectual life for more than two millennia.
In addition to Zephan's interest in ancient Egypt, Noah's fondness for the Bloodhound land speed record car, Josiah's art and Elias's engineering, they tend an allotment, attend a woodwork class with a group of pensioners and swim with other home-educated children.
European musicians, who still have a fondness for their ancient composer-apprentice tradition, will be the focus of several concerts.
Over here, fellow Dane Christoffer Hruskova, having started out at his first London restaurant, Fig, is continuing to riff on the New Nordic theme at his second place, North Road, applying Noma's zero-tolerance policy on olive oil and garlic, and its fondness for foraging and ancient cooking techniques (smoking, salting and pickling), to ingredients available in Britain.
A fondness for pearly white teeth is ancient.
And that their fondness for, say, translating songs into the ancient script of Mesopotamia, the first non-pictographic written language as practised in 5,000BC between the Tigris and the Euphrates in the city of Ur, might possibly be considered a little pretentious.
Because they often resembled ancient artifacts, Riccio's works were also in sync with the fondness of Paduan intellectuals for collecting bits and pieces of the Classical past — coins, fragments of sculptures and functional objects.
There are digressions on Montaigne, Kant and Nietzsche, an extremely eerie appearance from beyond the grave by foul-mouthed ancient Greek poet Hipponax, an exhausting amount of wordplay and an unaccountable fondness for words beginning with the letter Z.
Walk Beijing's faceless bureaucrats may pay lip service to their nation's ancient history, but the swift disappearance of the city's historic hutongs, or alleys, reveal their fondness for the bulldozer.
