the ice thaws

The 1968 movement pressed against the boundaries of any normalism.

The Lahore Museum was larger, but here were more wonders—ghost-daggers and prayer-wheels from Tibet; […] gilt figures of Buddha and little portable lacquer alters; Russian samovars with turquoises on the lid; […] arms of all sorts and kinds, and a thousand other oddments were cased, or piled, or merely thrown into the room […]

the theatre is predominated by the usual greyheads (average age one hundred)