"Masked
parties,
Savage
parties,
Victorian
parties,
Greek
parties,
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,
in
windmills
and
swimming-baths,
tea
parties
at
school
where
one
ate
muffins
and
meringues
and
tinned
crab,
parties
at
Oxford
where
one
drank
brown
sherry
and
smoked
Turkish
cigarettes,
dull
dances
in
London
and
comic
dances
in
Scotland
and
disgusting
dances
in
Paris
–
all
that
succession
and
repetition
of
massed
humanity
…
Those
vile
bodies"
-Evelyn
Waugh,
Vile
Bodies
(1930)
I've
been
reading
alot
about
past
generations
of
addicts
and
what
society
looked
like
in
that
time.
I
came
across
this
great
book
about
the
party
seen
in
england
from
around
1918-1940.
The
Bright
Young
People,
as
the
group
was
called,
has
a
lot
of
similarities
both
to
current
pop
culture
and
the
rave
seen.
I
thought
it
was
great
to
read
a
story
written
78
years
ago
that
seemed
to
be
filled
with
people
just
like
I
have
hung
out
with.
Reading
about
people
who
partied
till
they
burned
out,
died,
or
had
to
flee
the
country.
