One new word I learned from Keep the Aspidistra Flying was "eupeptic" which in the sense Orwell uses it means an idealised healthiness (he was describing an advertising hoarding).
I tried to find a modern example of a eupeptic family and came across this idealised family group advertising a Welsh seaside resort. In the referencing form of a casual "snapshot" photograph, the illustration shows a half-naked family of four on a beach with the cold-looking Atlantic in the background (note the white surf crashing on the sand) and more than half the sky covered in cloud. Father and son have Celtic red hair, mother and daughter have Saxon fair hair.


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