35/70 "I dare say you appreciate that as an original compliment." "No.... I wonder what Ruff would say about jazz--I just wonder," murmured Carley. "The preachers and reformers and bishops and rabbis make me sick. Jazz--the discordant note of our decadence! Jazz--the harmonious expression of our musicless, mindless, soulless materialism!--The idiots! If they could be women for a while they would realize the error of their ways. |