cheerful money, by tad friend
Thursday, August 16th, 2012
Hugely enjoying this tale of growing up among Mitfords-manque in America.
Life is a scavenger hunt run backward as well as forward, a race to comprehend. But with Wasps, the caretakers lock the explanatory sorrows away, then swallow the key.
It is unkind of me to consider the embarrassment of the aristocracy my own private soap opera, but Goddess forgive me, I do.
When Donny lived in Manhattan he’d often walk by the Ralph Lauren store on Madison and glower at the windows’ horsy homages to the world the Robinsons once bestrode. “If Ralph really wants to get to the heart of Waspdom,” Donny says, “he should do a whole window full of beakers of lithium and patients in white gowns.”
