against<\/a> including those scenes, but now I think that the Pyggie Ball is a Good Thing, on the whole. It\u2019s visually attractive, you can slip in the Eynsford-Hills, which is nice, and it underlines the imbecility of the entire class thing. “Silly people don\u2019t know their own silly business” Higgins says later, and he is utterly right. For all that they place such emphasis on the markers of class, they don\u2019t speak properly themselves, nor do they recognize those markers correctly for themselves. They have to rely on Nepommuck—and Nepommuck is dishonest, playing the game for his own purposes, and is, besides, a fool. Insofar as the play is an attack on the class system (and it is), the Ball shows the inconsistency, incoherence and instability of that system. So that\u2019s all right, d\u2019y\u2019see?
\nWell, and the thing about the Ball is that we waltz. Dear Jane, our director, has chosen the Liebeslieder, Strauss Op. 114, a lovely piece of music if a trifle difficult to dance to. And most of us are not dancers. Your Humble Blogger is not a dancer, although I can waltz a little, so I am well up on most of the crowd. We will have (unless there are changes\u2026) five couples; of those ten persons, I believe three of us have waltzed on a dance floor. I count myself in that, knowing that there are some Gentle Readers who are right now snorting through their noses at the thought that what I do could properly be called waltzing, but think of this: seven of us have less experience than I have.
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And our Dear Director—let me make this clear, I adore<\/i> her, and yield to no-one in my adoration, but a dance teacher, she ain\u2019t. Ah, well. It\u2019ll all work out. In fact, I suspect it will be gorgeous. But it will take some doing.
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Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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