Author and journalist I'm currently enjoying two very different nonfiction books: Release the Bats by DBC Pierre, a characteristically entertaining and eccentric how-to-write book by the author of Vernon God Little, and Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Random House US £18.99), a must-read for insight on race and America.
You can be eccentric in how you live - by living authentically - without acting.
Mytton, you'll recall, Squire of Halston, Shropshire, in the early 19th century, was a passionate follower of the hounds and a perfect case in point for the Weeks assertion that "overboard is the only way most eccentrics know how to go".
He's very physical but there's something really funny about him and joyous and also, to be honest, something eccentric about him; how hard-working he is, how intense he is..
It was a manufactured eccentricity, unnecessary given how genuinely eccentric the city already is.
People who grew up with them tend to have eccentric tales of how they used to crush the rock-hard shells, and how if you don't wear gloves the black dye can stain your hands for life.
Carey's reluctance to summarise his new novel comes down, perhaps, to just how eccentric and unsummarisable it is.
She loved his eccentric hobbies, and how he recited poetry to her and held her with arms that seemed unbreakable.
Inventors say a tradition of tinkering and building has made Japan welcoming to experimental ideas, no matter how eccentric.
There are too many others rushing along, and he must pay each proper reverence, because no matter how eccentric it is, it's his.
