KB Homes is an aspiring gentleman, scholar, and journeyman in several different disciplines ranging across a wide stretch of fields. Some might say he was a Renaissance man, but this would be far from the truth. The truth is that he has far less interest in the Renaissance, and more in that period of time during which Victorian manners were the norm.
He is, for example, quite the fan of smoking a pipe. Spare him your cigars and the filth that is cigarettes. Give him instead the opportunity to tamp tobacco into his own pipe, and to smoke it at his leisure. You’ll never see him wearing a tophat or anything like that, but you will see him wearing old fashioned caps and smoking jackets.
Keep in mind: it’s not that he’s against culture as it is today. He’s just a bigger fan of the older culture.
Perhaps nowhere is this exhibited more than his love of old detective fiction. While most would suggest that he should stick with the noir entries of the Twenties and the Thirties, he is more inclined to look to classics. Classics such as the serialized Sherlock Holmes stories.
In Holmes, KB Homes finds an engaging protagonist. Granted, the Great Detective was never a people person, but as heroes go he’s not half bad. He’s driven, dedicated, a man of his time, capable of subtle strength. His mind sharp as a whip, his body hard as iron, or so the stories say.
KB Homes has continued to be someone who draws a lot of his hobbies around emulating this man. Whether it be attempting to learn about people based on noticing obscure details, or the cane-fighting, boxing, throwing gentleman’s martial art that is Bartitsu, or even if it’s just helping a lady across the street, KB Homes has made his life far more interesting by emulating the examples in his books.
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