You perceive, of course, differences. Moderation, abstinence, discreet charm… The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie, true? So, it's a different era. Year 1937.
At the end of these considerations, I conducted a few interviews with people representing the so-called great modern world. I am not afraid of the charges, I'm wading into fiction, even more detached from the realities of life than the historical materials presented to you. This is for two reasons:
First: these people from the 'big world” - although all my interlocutors would laugh at such a classification - they turn out to be ordinary, though sometimes they are entangled in situations far different from these, which we used to regard as normal.
Po drugie: if we do not put our own friends above the rest of the "rest of the world."”, then maybe we didn't deserve it, to have friends?
Krzysztof Kąkolewski - writer - about his guests:
My guests are divided into the southern ones, afternoon and evening. They are also divided into business and private, and that's why, I don't have any office, or official workplace, so if I need to discuss something important, I invite these people to my place. These are the midday and afternoon guests. In the evening I only accept friends… I do not maintain any contacts, the so-called. social or business-related, Which is why, I need someone. So everything looks very simple.
I like to meet as few people as possible, so I don't organize any "parties” - receptions for large groups. I invite you one, two or three people because then I can really talk and I have these people to myself. Four people are the limit for me, beyond which catastrophe occurs, i.e. the so-called. general social conversation, during which people behave differently - “they express their lines”, and even there is competition. Nowadays, when there is so little time, only intensive meetings are important: it is possible during the "party” during very short meetings of everyone with everyone where he deals and raises the most important and senseless matters, on the other hand, the directness of man's expression to man is destroyed around one table, element of honesty, which is due to the lack of witnesses, it actually becomes a public statement and carries a certain burden of embarrassment, and, worst of all, to all revelers, and what a disgusting thing, begins to resemble a television statement.
I try not to mention unpleasant matters during my receptions, not to talk about politics in a general form, because if there is someone who is well informed, I am begging him to tell him something.
I really care about personal and creative conversations - I usually welcome people, who create something and those who interest me very much. I would like to know what is going on with them, therefore I need to have them” for this evening undisturbed and undisturbed.
And besides, if on Tuesday I welcome Mr and Mrs Y and kindly discuss Mr and Mrs Y, we are kindly discussing it on Thursday, when we host the Ys, which concerns state X.
I do not tolerate in myself and other unkindness, spitefulness, envy in particular. I avoid such people.
The evening party starts with a drink. We have two corporate cocktails”. Cocktail K. K. inspires the terror and disgust of the guests. Here are the ingredients: 1/4 they die, 1/8 campari bitter, 1/8 tonic, the rest of the orange juice.
Cocktail KMK: 1 /8 vodka, 1 /8 they die, 1 /8 cherry vodka, 1 /8 lemon juice, the rest of Coca-Cola.
Dinner - even in difficult times, it consists of a large number of dishes. The basis is variety. Generally, kitchen, which suits me and which my wife creates, is a mixture of Polish and French cuisine. And so we start with appetizers in two or three types - fish, cold meat, Vegetable Salad. Later, green lettuce enriched with everything green - spinach, sorrel, watercress, and even lebiod and nettle, kale, chinese cabbage, green chicory sprouts, pieces of sweet cabbage. The composition was inspired by the lettuce prepared by Sharon Tate. After lettuce, there is sometimes a soup - vegetable puree, then usually two courses follow, bread and poultry. Then cheese and fruit, and finally coffee, liqueur, cognac.
Because I eat lunch and dinner together, between 20 and 23, I also warn the guests, that they eat little during the day, because dinner will be plentiful.
Visits start late, but they are never very long in general. As a guest, I promote "protection” hosts, that is, leaving ahead of time, when everyone starts yawning and can't part. I am meeting with reciprocity resulting from acceptance.