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@nick_warner
I think your comical skepticism at the excessive preparation techniques suggested in Brooks' supplementary instructionals is a sentiment adequately expressed in my own post (see the excessive exaggeration of Brooks', actually much more modest, requirements, whereby I reference esotericism and the occult, as well as medieval medicinals in my, perhaps meager, attempt at satire)
However, I thank you for your alternate take on this 'don't fuck around' and 'no nonsense' approach.
If I decide, on the advice of others, not to apply any treatments and to simply ride the saddle as it was sold, I will be sure to partially credit you for this in my memoirs to the effect of 'BlueQuinn was always a fellow who had a real old -school, straight-down-the-line, no bullshit approach to cycling and I always respected him for that. He wasted no time treating leather saddles, and certainly would not entertain the notion that others might toy with such frivolities.'