"… Wild West parties, Russian parties, Circus parties, parties where one had to dress as somebody else, almost naked parties in St John's Wood, parties in flats and studios and houses and ships and hotels and night clubs, dull dances in London and comic dances in Scotland and disgusting dances in Par"
那些光鲜少年,邪恶肉体,fin-de-siècle, 历史夹缝中迷失无尽派对的灵魂,虚无沉沦唯一可抓握的永恒幻觉似焦渴的唇舌饮下毒酒,洪水滔天时栖身朽烂木筏,瘾症噩梦不断加速,撞车,梦醒,死去,八卦专栏和嗜血大众转头弃置脑后,只有奢靡的大理石墓碑记得早逝孩子镶金的姓氏。没疯没死的幸存者被婚姻抹去意义,被难言之罪逐出故土,给闪亮新血腾出位置。阶级隐形城墙依然固若金汤,爵士时代群像展开,人物脸谱模糊像维系帝国的神话早在战事阴影下幻灭。This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. 除了金钱没什么是坚贞的,风尚,信仰,国家,永远失之交臂的天降横财,永远错失复原的婚约和爱情。Fry下一世纪之交的改编光明了许多,连起环扣,重拾爱的价值。
Wile, cold, pathetic, desperate, and no-tomorrow. All the main characters have to eventually either go to war, the jungle, or a sad life like Waugh himself.
The ill-advised nature of human beings that is easily swayed by the media is the book calls "vile bodies". Now the young ppl still on the schedule go pubs, party & find physically & mentally fun
The writers who ridiculed wise young ppl & self-imposed intellectuals belonged to the same group sort of the protagonist Adam & his those young friends