Sauntering along the dance floor at rabid pace, a gentleman of wealth, poise, dignity and aggression allows his gaze to fall upon a lady whose traditional upbringing and marked elegance only accentuate a coupled fall into the light of an assured future. 


This is the vision I imagine of the fabled 1920s – a New York City dance floor setting the stage for wealth and elegance to demand the spotlight before the looming curtain call. 


The ubiquity of the scene is the weapon that syndicates its supposed demise. The masses of the boarding school populous and the public school crowd have both read the social crusades of Fitzgerald’s Gatsby, and the shared experience supposedly pads the grave of a lost, unequal society. It is a pat on the back from the socially elite to the disconnected peasant on top of this mysterious chamber of death that extends an arm of understanding from the rich to the lacking - A symbolic gesture that the halls of power are now open to the powerless, and the world of Fitzgerald is lost to time. 


As the date turns the 3rd digit of the millennium to a 2 once more, these supposedly open halls of power only carry the ghastly remains of wealth and luxury, as the soul of extravagance has retreated underground. The powerful have welcomed the lesser into the parlors of their former homes and then changed residence to a mansion of visible mystique. 


Power isn’t shared, rather it is a façade of the dance floor of poise and virtue once alive in the spirits of history. 


The curtain closed at the end of the 1920s, but the show goes on – a prohibition of the world of Gatsby. Underground and assumed dead but thriving at Yale. From the seats of a captive audience, several peeks of light have snuck through the shutters and released the code to the haunted speakeasy that reveals a simple truth:


The Roaring 20s Live On.

Sauntering along the dance floor at rabid pace, a gentleman of wealth, poise, dignity and aggression allows his gaze to fall upon a lady whose traditional upbringing and marked elegance only accentuate a coupled fall into the light of an assured future.

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