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Nyotaimori by C. J. Manroe  (aka fuzzyzombielove) deviantart.com Nyotaimori is the Japanese art of serving food from the co...

Dream-sketch by Zena (untitled, undated) As Roland Barthes once pointed out, the art of love has no history. And so there'...

As much as I love objects, it's the pathos of distance between them which fascinates the most; that gulf of negative space and s...

Stephen Alexander: Birth of a Southend Venus (2016) Lawrence writes that the gods exist according to the soul's desire . ...

And what's the good of a woman  unless she's a glimpse of a goddess of some sort? For Lawrence, women in whom one can...

Me and Miss Starkey (Xmas 1980) Dagmar Starkey wasn't the first (or even the only) girl I had a crush on in the sixth form...

Bernard Faucon: Les Grandes Vacances (1976-81) bernardfaucon.net Doesn't time fly? It's now forty years since the ...

A bikini-clad 19-year-old Brigitte Bardot  at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953 Someone writes to say that my recently published po...

Sadly, it seems that things have come to a pretty pass in the South of France, where the mayor of Cannes has rece...

"This said, his guilty hand pluck'd his piece,  and as the grim Ouroboros he did feast." I can understand Lawrence...