And does he ever do it. Including the gaudy neon-colored links at the bottom.

I sat there thinking of the weekend?s diversions, the dinners, the spectacles, the fountain display, and I thought: these things were available once only to kings and princes and consorts and queens. This must have been what it was like to be a member of the royals in the days before the French Revolution ? except that I would have known everyone in this theater, and would have suspected a third of them of plotting against me.

I imagine that cuts into your enjoyment.

Sans people plotting against you, go forth and enjoy the whole thing.