"Because they were hypocrites," Finkle-McGraw said, after igniting his 
calabash and shooting a few tremendous fountains of smoke into the air, "the 
Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who 
held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefandous conduct 
themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not 
hypocrites themselves—they took no moral stances and lived by 
none."