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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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[bladderwrack.livejournal.com]

Eh, that world for one is still going strong. A lot of its offspring appear to go to my college ><. The modern incarnations of same may appear vulgar and insufferable but to be fair, so were the old ones, and the continuity is all there. Waugh said he wrote Brideshead Revisited as a swansong for a world he thought was about to disappear, only to find that it reasserted itself with vigour after the war.

I'm not entirely sure who it was that said, England has history, America has geography. And it's true, I think; I can barely fit into my head the idea of a land big enough that you can walk across it for a week without human contact or evidence of human existence. I mean, the remote places in England can kill you, but it's though climactic hostility rather than sheer /size/. England is physically small but dense; the size is all in the fourth dimension.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's May Week in Cambridge right now. As I write the Bright Young Things are out there living their Brideshead Revisited post-exam mania, while Tedious Old Farts like me complain about the noise from the College Ball fireworks displays (I exaggerate for effect).

Seriously, half the time Cambridge feels like it's still in 1908; the other half of the time it feels like it's a parody of that time.