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The stockings and shoes, exquisite, but strangely out of place with their high heels buried in the sand. "How do I know," she demanded, "that I am not one of the children of the cities, that I was not fashioned and made for the gas-lit life, to eat unreal food at unreal hours, and feed my brain upon the unreal epigrams of the men whom you would call decadents. Two days here, a week very well.
The poor critic goes to his grave, picking up a smattering of cant phrases that are in the air "Zolaism," "Ibsenites," "Decadents," "Symbolism," "the new humour," "the strong-man poetry," and what not but to become acquainted at first hand with the meaning or meaninglessness of these phrases is denied him by the hard conditions of his life.
Tolstoi is a blasé aristocrat, disgusted with civilization by having too much eaten of it." Whether or not this characterization of Tolstoi is justified, there can be no question that many of this type rushed to the aid of syndicalism. Its savage vigor appeals to some artists, decadents, and déclassés.
The theories of various schools of mental science, and the practice of various schools of art, the practice particularly of the persons styled by themselves æsthetes and by others decadents, have indeed attempted to reduce man's relations with the great world-power Beauty to mere intellectual dilettantism or sensual superfineness.
Since the decadents themselves must admit that delight in sin kills, rather than nurtures, sensibility, a popular defense of their practices is to the effect that sin, far from being sought consciously, is an inescapable result of the artist's abandonment to his feelings.
Does it mean one in a million, should you say? Or perhaps that is too large a proportion? Some people say, do they not, that there never was a normal man?" "By 'normal," retorted Wilson, doggedly, "I mean average, and I include every one except a few decadents and faddists." At this point, seeing that we were threatened with another digression, I thought it best to intervene again.
They wandered much and only came to Paris at intervals, and each time they came, a little poorer, a little more troubled, and then after a lapse I heard those two were born at Nice wretched little decadents, when my poor Hilda was a mass of nerves and disillusion. Alatheé was eleven then. It was, par hazard, when she was about fourteen that she heard of her father's crime.
There are nations that will not fling away the empire of earth in order to slight an unknown man and insult a noble woman whose boots they are not fitted to unlatch. There are nations not blinded to Science, not given over hand and foot to effete snobocracies and Degenerate Decadents. In short, mark my words THERE ARE OTHER NATIONS!" This speech it was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways.
He resorted to the old-fashioned methods of the decadents for maintaining the certain requisite melancholy apparently necessary to sing a certain way. In the struggle of that period, he must have seemed like a very clear, though a very sad singer.
Thus certain groups of decadents found it easier to imitate De Quincey's opium than his eloquence. For he was a very universal man; and talked some sense not only on every subject, but, so far as it is logically possible, in every sense.
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