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 MOODS AND POPPIES

E took up the Bhagavad Gita—our Little Group of Advanced Thinkers, you know—in quite a thorough way the other evening.

Isn't the Bhagavad Gita just simply wonderful!

It has nothing at all to do with Bagdad, you know—though at first glance it seems quite like it might, doesn't it?

Of course, they're both Oriental—aren't you just simply wild about Oriental things?—but really, they're quite different.

The Bhagavad Gita, you know, is all about Reincarnation and Karma, and all those lovely old things.

When I start my Salon I'm going to have a Bhagavad Gita Evening—all in costume, you know.

I find that when I dress in harmony with the Idea I radiate it so much more effectively, if you get what I mean.

Fothergil Finch is the same way.

He writes his best vers libre things in a purple dressing-gown. [53]