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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Only afterwards–mingling, paraded, socialising, exhibited–had she realised it was really just an excuse and the opera itself a side-show; the true spectacle of the evening was always played out inside the sumptuous foyer, upon the glittering staircases, within the curved sweep of dazzlingly lit, high-ceilinged corridors, beneath the towering chandeliers in the palatial anterooms, around fabulously laden tables...”
— Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
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