Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

What was j's attitude towards tomb stones? How was it different from that of Harris?

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Harris wanted to get out at Hampton Church, to go and see Mrs. Thomas’s tomb. J objected saying,

I don’t know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself. I know that the proper thing to do, when you get to a village or town, is to rush off to the churchyard, and enjoy the graves; but it is a recreation that I always deny myself. I take no interest in creeping round dim and chilly churches behind wheezy old men, and reading epitaphs. Not even the sight of a bit of cracked brass let into a stone affords me what I call real happiness.