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...against the counters at Selfridge's or Harrods, the women often swathed in black gowns and veils, the men in Arab robes topped by checked sports jackets. At sunset they parade along Hyde Park. Toward midnight they filter out of Mirabelle, the Hard Rock Cafe or other favored Mayfair restaurants to stroll over to one of their discotheques or gambling clubs...
Waugh's work has survived the age that produced it. We do not read Vile Bodies because it is a spoof of something we care about; we care about the Bright Young Things of Mayfair (if we care at all) only because of Vile Bodies and novels like it. Waugh's prose style is recognized as crystalline and authentic. His characters, born in a half-life between portrait and imagination, are fully his creations now, now that the originals have been forgotten. Those who insist on relegating Waugh to the position of a minor writer will have to be convinced...
...dazed and wounded poured out onto the street facing Hyde Park. "I saw a woman with both legs blown off below the knee," said a waiter as he sat dumbfounded on the curb. "There was blood and black smoke everywhere." The explosion was heard all over Mayfair, the heart of fashionable London, and ambulances sped to the hotel. "One minute everyone was walking about normally," said Sally Mordant, a passerby. "The next it was complete chaos...
Most of his readers assumed that Wodehouse lived in Mayfair, around the block from Bertie Wooster's Drones Club, or in Shropshire, near Blandings Castle. In fact, the most English of English writers lived most of his life in the U.S., which always had a romantic attraction for him. "America's never been a foreign country to me," he said not long ago. "It always seemed like my own country. I don't know why, but I'd much sooner live here than in England...
...bemoan a bad shot at a grouse on the moors. After serving in the Coldstream Guards and undertaking a short, unspectacular career in business, he had retired on his $250,000 inheritance to carry on more engrossing pursuits, notably golf, skiing, the hunt and chemin de fer at Mayfair gaming clubs. His success at the tables won him the name "Lucky Lucan...