Your text for this week os Evelyn Waugh's short novel Decline and Fall, a parody of life in England in the inter war years where many archaic traditions live on while new thoughts drift in the wind. The architect figure of Prof Silenus is of particular interest, he seems to have quite a taste for deco rather than strictly modern, but we shouldn't worry about the style too much, it's attitudes that we should enjoy, that and Waugh's barbed wit. The cartoon below by Karl Arnold is of the same period.
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