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Flowers, really, the Divine Marquis would have laughed in the Foucaultard's face -- and rightly so. What sort of reason is this -- "posited", "apotheosis", "endpoint", "episteme" -- for reading anyone? The Marquis de Sade wrote in warm, red blood -- not vacuous, academic, poststructuralist...

Rest assured, it is neither. ^_^ I read your posts faithfully, sailorKa, as I'm sure other scape members read them as well, even if they remain understandably silent due to discomfort at the enormity of your situation. Yes, I watched that video on youtube some days ago. The one thing I...

Sade rewrote the original Misfortunes of Virtue twice. Each time he expanded it, and in each new version the sexual violence became more extreme and the philosophical discourses more raging (and more enthralling, actually). First version: 1787 (see the Oxford UP edition Misfortunes of...

Heh-heh. Walpole's vast correspondence is actually his main contribution to English literature. I've never attempted it though. Truth be told, I read The Monk first too. >_>;; Oh, man -- Sade. >_< Sade is a challenge, but he did develop the (non-supernatural) Gothic form to its...

The relevance of Carter to this thread is obviously that he, like Dennis Kucinich, saw a UFO. ::meev:: http://www.cohenufo.org/Carter/carter_abvtopsec.htm His books of poetry are dreadful. Meanwhile, we Ron Paul revolutionaries have raised over nine million dollars toward our late...

The merit of Walpole's novel is purely historical, unfortunately, but your enthusiasm is promising, because it suggests that you'll really enjoy the better stuff. ^_^ So far as authentic Gothic novels go -- that is, those works published during the late 18th and early 19th centuries -- there...

David Tibet is actually something of a legend within the supernatural fiction/Decadent small press field and community. The first book that I ordered from him -- Master of Fallen Years by Vincent O'Sullivan (as edited by the esteemed fantasist and anthologist Jessica Amanda Salmonson) -- is...

Ages ago -- or maybe it was just months -- or weeks -- someone on these forums mentioned the UK band Current 93. I'm sure of it, indeed, though I'm too lazy to use the scape search field to confirm this. Anyway, Current 93's eccentric and generally brilliant composer David Tibet is one of...

Finally acquired: OLIVIA, Return of the Chlorophyll Bunny (the title of which sounds like something out of Jean Lorrain's Decadent prose-work Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker; in any case, it finishes my OLIVIA cd collection). Rounded it out with the acquisition of her collaboration with...

Exactly. I guess I'll just have to buy the 2008 Waka Inoue calendar myself then. ::zetsubou:: exists merely to thicken the plot. That is all. *idly sips his absinthe*

All-caps "for shame", my ass. If you really believe this, ::kiss::-san, then why haven't you accepted my acceptance of your challenge to wager on it, hmm? *reclining idly on the divan*

I lack a scanner, but for reference there's this off-the-cuff snapshot: http://homepage.mac.com/jaestheticism/. ... /cough.jpg Obviously, calling what's shown here "hijinx" doesn't abolish its yaoi-centric content. Neither does dismissing it as "fanservice". It's clearly yaoi fanservice...

Oh, really? Should I then refer you to what would be page 25 of the ~merveilles~ photobook, counting from back to front, Japanese style? Please describe to me the situation that you see there, because, damn, it looks a helluva lot like yaoi to me. Oh, come on, flowers! As a fellow...

"Every single"? I very much doubt that such a fangirlism actually exists. Nevertheless, I am amused to no end when supercilious fangirls of cross-dressing J-rockers desperately seek to distinguish themselves from those horrid "yaoi fangirls", because it seems to me that the cross-dressing...

@ Halvorc: this thread is an excellent idea. If I were a mod, I'd make it a sticky. ^_^ @ sailorKa, fellow Wildean: please keep us up-to-date regarding your well-being and that of your family, friends, and fellow students. No detail should be regarded as too trivial or inconsequential...

*belatedly* I registered as a Republican in order to vote for Ron Paul in the NY primaries, and I plan to denote a $100 to his campaign on the infamous November the Fifth, when Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the English Parliament. Purely a symbolic gesture, of course, grass-root's...

Happy birthday, elec! :D (But be warned: youth ends at twenty-five -- or upon marriage -- whichever comes balefully first. >_<)

Gah! The Del Rey Lovecraft texts are lifted from Weird Tales and outdated Arkham House editions that are riddled with errors. Worse, the selection of tales in Road to Madness is less than exemplary, and in a few cases ("The Street", "The Transition of Juan Romero", "The Evil Clergyman") are...

This is an understandable response, but the facts of Lewis Carroll's life stand and are readily available in any of his important biographies. I don't believe, however, that there is any evidence that he was a criminal -- that he assaulted the girls he photographed, for instance. But he was...

I disliked Carroll as a kid, though I can't remember why apart from boredom. And I still don't like him. He's too Pee-wee-Herman spastic for my tastes. He's also mildly creepy, but I blame that on his ridiculous obsession with puzzles. The fact that Carroll was steeped in the opium of...