The Aesthetic Society

The meetings, which took place every last Thursday of the month included, among its guest speakers, a philosopher from Cambridge, a poet from Northern Ireland, a feminist from Hamburg… Perhaps it was humbug, but O was in seventh heaven. These parties in her professor’s rooms where everyone talked loud – everyone was brilliant and sophisticated. - They drank cheap red wine. She too became brilliant and sophisticated, and drank cheap read wine. Even if it was only in her head they flocked round. – Intrigued. – But she never made friends outside that room