Towel theory

WotN (aka Adèle) draws my attention to this sentence from page 221 of Sabine Durrant's The Great Indoors:

David, unusually in a man, understands the importance of an enveloping towel.

Her reason for pointing it out is that this is a bit of a debating point in the Geras household. Amongst our towels we have these two enormous green ones which Adèle (aka WotN) favours and I definitely do not. Whenever they come out of the bathroom cupboard and on to the towel rail - when we take them out, I mean; they have no surreal powers - she is pleased and I am less pleased. Her argument is to do with warmth, comfort and other such womanly properties. But for me the task of drying yourself with these giant expanses of material is turned into a demanding chore. It's like trying to manipulate a tent around the many parts of your body. I've suggested that we cut both of these two towels in half to give us four towels with greater mobility, but have failed to win the case on that one. If I can suggest a military analogy which may appeal to the 'aha-you-see' impulses of anti-war critics of this site, I prefer a smaller towel because then drying yourself is like mobile warfare; whereas, whenever I'm using one of those big green numbers, I feel as if I'm Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.

You'll say the solution is for Adèle to use the big greens and for me not to, availing myself of our more rationally proportioned towels. Don't be such a clever clogs. That's exactly what we do.