Sublime

Just over a decade before Iolo’s introduction of the Gorsedd in 1792, a Druid organization had already been created, but it was a distinctly different phenomenon: its purposes were social and fraternal rather than cultural. The Ancient Order of Druids, founded by a man named Hurle in 1781 in a pub in London’s Poland Street, was formed to provide

22nd June 1921 Dear Lady Battiscombe, I write in the strongest possible terms having received complaints from several Claycombe residents about depraved and ungodly goings-on at your windmill on the evening of 21st June. Two of your guests, dressed in pagan robes and trailing foliage, accompanied by an inebriated young lady wearing a swan costume,

Poets

Designers

Programmers

Lawyers (but the good kind)

Marketers (but the good kind)

Business owners

Gamblers

Essayists

Musicians

Storytellers

Rat Race abandoners

Idlers

Bohemians

A British social service project, run by earnest and rather formidable ladies, called the Charity Organization Society—C.O.S. for short—used to be known among the poor as “Cringe or Starve.”

‘Father Heribert Jone found drunkenness a more serious sin than gluttony. I don’t understand that. A little drunkenness has brought us together, Sancho. It helps friendship. Gluttony surely is a solitary vice. A form of onanism.

in the old age of our society, in a mood dangerously morbid, in a spirit only too ready to take the exception instead of the rule. If we find creatures that are half human, we may only too possibly make them an excuse for being half-human ourselves.