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~ Sketching at the ~
EMBASSY of HUNGARY
Annual Masquerade Ball, Belgravia
Caricaturist Mr Sketchum in his Austrian "disguise" - Party entertainment ('ball games') at the London Embassy of Hungary's annual 'winter/masked/Venetian/masquerade' (?!) ball.
"Although I laugh and act like a clown, beneath this mask I am wearing a frown." – John Lennon
It's usually me who provides the guests with the entertainment (& makes them flip their wigs), but when after I'd sketched him with his hairpiece on, and this gentleman abruptly whipped it off, I jumped out of my seat!
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." – Oscar Wilde
"Virtue has a veil, vice a mask." – Victor Hugo
"No-one reveals themself as they are; we all wear a mask and play a role." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"What do you call a masked moose? Anonymoose." -
Anonymous
"So much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock-face for it" - George Eliot
