Bill Bryson"ached to be suave" .The way he behaves in public shows that he has ** in his mission.He would sometimes show the most uncivilized act.He would love, just once in his life ,to rise from a dinner table without looking as if he has experienced an extremely localized seismic event or get in a car and close the door without leaving 14 inches of his coat outside or wear light-*** trousers without discovering at the end of the day that he had at various times sat on chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrup and motor oil.