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14 Feb 2018

Siderodromophilia (A Post for Valentine's Day)

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The Simpsons (S4/E15):  Lisa's card to Ralph I've written elsewhere on this blog about objectum sexuality with refe...
11 Feb 2018

It All Comes Down to Artifice in the End (Notes Towards a Decadent Floraphilia)

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A rebours  by Ink-Yami (2017-18) deviantart.com   I. For me, Rupert Birkin is literature's greatest floraphile: a man who...
8 Feb 2018

Reflections on the Death of a Jewel-Encrusted Tortoise

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The decadent aristocrat Des Esseintes, whose retreat into an increasingly perverse and artificial inner life is depicted with such br...
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5 Feb 2018

In Memory of Joris-Karl Huysmans (and His Bejewelled Tortoise)

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Caricature of J-K Huysmans (1885) To be honest, I increasingly find that I have to be in a very particular frame of mind to read 19t...
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