Hi everybody!
There's a phrase in "Poor Little Rich Boy", in "Big Money", written by Dos Passos (USA), the location of which has puzzled me: "adventure became slumming." in the following context:
(It should be noted that the poor little rich boy is William Randolph Hearst)
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Whenever they went royally the Hearsts could buy their way,
up and down the California coast, through ranches and miningtowns
in Nevada and in Mexico,
in the palace of Porfirio Diaz;
the old man had lived in the world, had rubbed shoulders with rich and poor, had knocked around in miners' hells, pushed his way through unblazed trails with a packmule. All his life Mrs. Hearst's boy was to hanker after that world hidden from him by a mist of millions;
the boy had a brain, appetites, an imperious will,
but he could never break away from the gilded apron-strings;
adventure became slumming.
He was sent to boardingschool at St. Poul's, in Concord, New Hampshire. His pranks kept the school in an uproar. He was fired.
He tutored and went to Harvard
...
He was rusticated and finally fired from Harvard.
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Now, Hearst was not old enough to go slumming for adventure. What does it means then.
Thank you guys.
There's a phrase in "Poor Little Rich Boy", in "Big Money", written by Dos Passos (USA), the location of which has puzzled me: "adventure became slumming." in the following context:
(It should be noted that the poor little rich boy is William Randolph Hearst)
Quote
Whenever they went royally the Hearsts could buy their way,
up and down the California coast, through ranches and miningtowns
in Nevada and in Mexico,
in the palace of Porfirio Diaz;
the old man had lived in the world, had rubbed shoulders with rich and poor, had knocked around in miners' hells, pushed his way through unblazed trails with a packmule. All his life Mrs. Hearst's boy was to hanker after that world hidden from him by a mist of millions;
the boy had a brain, appetites, an imperious will,
but he could never break away from the gilded apron-strings;
adventure became slumming.
He was sent to boardingschool at St. Poul's, in Concord, New Hampshire. His pranks kept the school in an uproar. He was fired.
He tutored and went to Harvard
...
He was rusticated and finally fired from Harvard.
Unquote
Now, Hearst was not old enough to go slumming for adventure. What does it means then.
Thank you guys.