Just because they drink and fuck and travel and lounge about doesn't mean they're the Manson family!

Oh, goodness no -- they were positively a postwar type! Totally made up continental nobility, claiming to be come down in station, and did I mention drinking all your champagne! Totally scam artists, but in a reasonably limited and entertaining kind of way.

They could be. But maybe they just have more money than sense. Actually, I had to laugh at them because when I was a teenager, I thought I'd grow up, move away and meet some.

It was funny reading the Jezebel blog because they found the Eurotrash nomads to be Freaky and Threatening.

The amctv.com open thread was the same way. It was like "Don's totally getting grifted, man," with equal parts of "OMG, Naked Don!"

Whereas I was all luxuriating in their Felliniesque decadence.

Clearly, these folks have also never read big, glittery roman à clefs ala Judith Krantz or Jacqueline Susann.

The other odd take in the blogs is presuming it's all a dream sequence of some kind.

Clearly they have not been watching their Fellini and Antonioni. Their heads would explode if they saw Last Year at Marienbad. Or possibly they would expire from ennui.

Yeah, I was going to note that Faulkner isn't the type to reveal the murderer on the last page.

Funny, I wrote a post saying the same thing and then deleted it. Yeah, the last paragraphs of The Sound And The Fury are beautiful, but not exactly revelatory. At least, any more revelatory than the rest of the book.

The other odd take in the blogs is presuming it's all a dream sequence of some kind.

Yeah, I saw that and was all, WTF?!? They think this is Dallas?

Or possibly they would expire from ennui.

Or just be really, really bored, man.

::pries tongue from cheek::

Well, it felt like one. But that's not the same.

I'm not sure they are all that innocent. I think their mention of having been in Don's wallet will come back later.

I'm not sure they are all that innocent. I think their mention of having been in Don's wallet will come back later.

Oh Lord, I just had interesting visions of them showing up in the NY 'burbs

Oh Lord, I just had interesting visions of them showing up in the NY 'burbs

I think I saw that in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show. There was wackiness.