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The note of satire in Penn's performance is a hedge against the reverence that dampened such jazz sagas as Bertrand Tavernier's 'Round Midnight (1986), while the gorgeousness of the playing is a hedge against the satire.
And having seen one of the famous public schools at rather too close quarters back when I was 14, during your sabbatical year in London, I think that if I were British, I'd be more likely to approach those charming and inessential aspects of British society with a box of explosives than with the Spectator 's pious reverence (and on the Speccie in particular, you'll remember Ian Buruma's devastating account of the place in his book Anglomania ).
The spirit is rather one of camp reverence.
The corollary of this reverence is an often underarticulated feeling of generational self-loathing.
Yes, he wanted to affirm his reverence for God and Jesus, but he also wanted to give a hot-foot to the Catholic Church.