Teaser Tuesday: Oct. 18

For the Teaser Tuesday weekly Web meme:

From: The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman, p. 255:

"After he ceased trying to edify me, Riley devoted the remainder of the flight to prettifying himself: apparently, though academics fly cattle class, they still spend hundreds -- no thousands -- of pounds on fancy suits. And his was a corker: three-piece, naturally, dark green, a perfect silk four-in-hand with a sapphire stickpin and a red handkerchief in his breast pocket."