The Archive · 1922

The Day of the Parrot

Parrots are the latest craze in pets, at Homo Everybody wants parrote, live ones if possible. La the absence of live parrots, stuffed parrote, china parrots, painted mania is said to lie deep li nature. The colourful, of the war have been succeeded for most people by dull, gray, slack times. Hence a frenzied effort to break the monotony by vivid chromatic effect in pets, clothing and appointments. Interiors done, for most part, in. brilliant chintzes, and cretonnes with lac quer furniture demand parrots or cockatoos as moving colour notes" to dominate the decorations, It seems likely that the theory can be carried one step farther. Like the jazz note in the strident, disjointed utterance of the parrot is perfectly suited dominate postwar parlour conyersation. The postwar novelist, also with his metallic brilliance and his pelting of piquant but disconnected epigrams, seems to have borrow-parrots, parrakects or cockatoos are ed mare a little from the acoaptable.

The explanation of the parrot feathered farceur.

Postwar poetry also bespeaks the

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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