Louis Burke | Culture | Contact
After completing his first semester of university, arts student Bernard Carrol (18) has disappeared into his intellectual phase in a brooding haze of Cafe Creme smoke.
Now one-sixth of the way through a degree that will earn him the respect of his mum and $30,000 in debt, Carrol has learnt that being smart can be kind of cool and that nothing is cooler than smoking mini cigars with a slight coffee flavour.
“Where’s the fun in cigarettes after all?” mused Carrol as he read his secondhand copy of Slaughterhouse-five.
Since meeting like-minded people at university, Carrol has embraced free-thinking by joining his friends in discourse about free will, furniture design classics and novels from the ‘50s written by American male authors.
On campus, the group is sometimes referred to as the ‘Fedora Kids’ a nickname Carrol thinks is hilariously misplaced.
“What they are referring to as a fedora is actually called a trilby hat. It’s a common misconception.”
Carrol is the next to be hosting the groups’ monthly poker game and he has purchased a lovely aged whiskey that he thinks will match superbly with his Cafe Creme’s once he works up the courage to try it without Coke.
“It will be a great night! The newest New Philosopher will be out by then so there will be plenty to discuss, believe you me!”
