[the_old_crowd] Re: OT: Introducing myself

[Eva Thienpont]

"severelysigune" wrote:
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> THE OLD CROWD – INTRO
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> ***Name:
> Eva

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> ***Home
> Ghent, Belgium.

Catlady:

<Does that mean you're not a native speaker of English? I never would have guessed!>

 

Sigune:

Thank you! But I bet that sooner or later I'll betray myself by using some entirely oblique expression, or by sounding terribly Victorian, or something other of the kind... ;-)


Catlady:
<Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, decadence, Snape ... is this a pattern?
After many years, I have yet to forget a particularly sick line in UNDER THE HILL, where the girls of Venus's realm are described as
having drawings on their legs which looks, through their white silk stockings, like 'the most delicious bruises'.>

 

Sigune:

*LOL* - In fact, I'd pick Wilde for the text, and Beardsley for the illustrations... I have to confess I've never managed to finish "Under the Hill"; I think it's a bit of a bore - a young man saying 'Hey, look what I dare to write! Isn't it shocking?' - it's a bit silly. But the drawings are great...

I have been thinking hard about what the pattern Wilde-Beardsley-Snape-decadence might be (imagine that being necessary! I'd never given it much thought before...), and I think it's in the 'black, white and grey' field (also visually, which is fun) and crossing the borderline of what is permissible. In any case, you know what they say about people who are fascinated with decadence: they are nice and law-abiding citizens with a fairly boring life ;-).

 

		
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