What: Satire from Evelyn Waugh, funeral business in Los Angeles, pet cemetery, British enclave in Hollywood, housemates, rebranding actresses, suicide, secretaries, Whispering Glades, cosmetician, Joyboy, senior mortician, Tennyson, Poe, Shelley, advice columns, Guru Brahmin, wooing, parrot, Mr. Slump, embalming chemicals, non-sectarian funeral pastor, Happier Hunting Ground
Representative quote: "They are a very decent, generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen. Always remember that, dear boy. It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard."
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