Here in Vanity Fair, life is all about who your parents are, which car you drive, how straight your teeth are and how small your waist is. Silly, ephemeral fools we are! Here in Vanity Fair, we know no passage of time, we are the same the whole year through. See the smiles on our faces? See the ribbons in our gowns, the dapper pinstripes on our collared shirts? We will dance for you, we will amaze you, we will turn you into something like ourselves. We will eat you right up. I've got a new story idea! I am trembling through and through with uninhibited excitement!