DON'T you just dote on the Japanese?
They're so esoteric — and subtle and all that sort of thing, aren't they?
Just look at Buddhism and Shintoism, for instance. Could anything be more subtle and esoteric?
We've been taking them up — our Little Group of Serious Thinkers, you know — and they've wonderful, simply WONDERFUL!
Not, of course, that one would BE a Buddhist or a Shintoist — but it's broadening to the mind, don't you think, to come in contact with the great thought of — of — well, really of people like Shinto, you know, and those other sages?
And how wonderfully artistic they are — the
Japanese!
The new parasols are quite Japanese, you know.
Haven't you seen them?
I have three, for different costumes. One is covered with embroidered Japanese crepe, and an- other with martine silk.
But the one, I think that express ME the most accurately — the one that represents my individuality, REALLY — is made with gold spokes covered with black Chantilly lace. Japanese shape, you know, and French workmanship.
And one must strive to represent one's self if one is to be honest.