"Example of an account... interchangeable in my mind... traversing Europe... black people." You need to tell your doctor you're worried about what oral finasteride is doing to your brain. You're totally nutty.
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The only previous attempt to rescue Austen from capeshit was in the excellent 1940 essay Regulated Hatred, by D.W. Harding.
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This non sequitur is an attempt to undermine my mission to salvage Jane Austen, greatest English novelist, from BBC capeshit farms. No! Leave Jane to be cut into a million Mr. Darcy fanfics says The Marquis. It happened to her so she must deserve it. A Dark Nietzschean world.
It only takes reading half of Swann's Way to see that Proust's talent was a very narrow kind and that his success was in staying immaculately within its bounds.
A while ago I began writing a parody of Sade's Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man where Bronze Age Pervert's dying friend confesses that throughout all their years of debaucherous marauding he was secretly a devout Catholic, his faith too passionate to be made into a show.
Max Beerbohm wrote a parody of Henry James where two children contemplate the dust that hangs in the air between them and their Christmas stockings.






















