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Mr Cool

Next, on the first floor, is infact the best room, but I somehow don't think he'll last there, on account of really critical moments with Mr Omar, is a young coloured kid called Mr Cool (which I need hardly say is not his baptismal name, I don't suppose). Cool is a local product, I mean born and bred on this Island of both races, and he wears a beardlet, and listens to the MJQ, and speaks very low, and blinks his big eyes and occasionally lets a sad, fleeting smile cross his kissable lips. He's certainly younger than I am, but he makes me feel about nine or so he's very poised and paternal, though what the hell, he does to keep himself in MJQ LP's I haven't an idea - I really haven't. I don't think its anything illegal, which is what you might expect, because the kid is always so skint, he's only one suit (a striped Italian black), and no furniture to speak of except for his radiogram, so that either business, whatever it may be, is bad, or else, for reasons best known, he's covering up.Extract from Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes

MR COOL

ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS By Colin MacInnes (20 August 1914 – 22 April 1976)

Mr Cool is not Paul Weller, Paolo Hewitt, The Mr Men character or the guy sporting the t-shirt at your office quiz night. He may be this guy, he may not, but this book heavily influenced The Style Council.

“a young black man, born in London, who lives in the same building as the narrator and who is threatened by the local teddy boys to leave the area.”

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