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via genders via rosefox:

http://www.spirit-of-the-age.co.uk/jazz_age_garden_party.htm

Oh, if only ....
I need to win the lottery right now.

Because it didn't totally fill me with longing/break my heart until this:

http://www.spirit-of-the-age.co.uk/garden_party_image_gallery1.htm

I can feel what it would be like to climb up into that, _dammit_.

Britain makes me sad; it seems to have so many more mostly lost worlds than we do.

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I'm not depressed. To the British, the past is a living, breathing, thing, still present. History is part of the water in which you swim, the ancestors are the partners of the living.

My maternal relations are all recently British, and it is so.
I inherited their sense of this, paternal Southern Cracker ancestry not withstanding, and share this point of view.

Like them, for example, I am eternally amused by the North American attitude that anything three hundred years old is ancient.
"Goodness, we have cutlery older than that ,and it's not even the good silver!"