MDMD(8) Notes

[David Casseres]

Chris Karatnytsky sez

>246.21 - 274.1  "Gin's Hogarthian Society"  The reference is to William
>Hogarth, satirical painter and caricaturist.  (CK)

Hogarth did a series of cartoons depicting the appalling levels of 
alcoholism and public drunkenness that resulted from the development of 
gin as the first drinkable distilled liquor that the urban poor could 
afford to abuse.  The term "Hogarthian" often refers more to scenes of 
squalor and depravity than to Hogarth himself.  Here I think the cited 
phrase means something like "society dominated by drunkenness."


Cheers,
David