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New Years Drunk
The carnivalesque elements of holidays that had largely been removed from Halloween and Christmas did still live on in New Year’s. In the context of the fad, this made it the most fitting holiday to pair with cities and urbanity. The drunk’s emblems of status—his clothes, his pocket watch—are made markers of ridicule by his drunken state. By extension, the city is also being ridiculed for its intemperate staging of New Year’s festivities, in contrast to the beauty of the idealized rural landscape. See the full whisper here.
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