radiantly-vicious

Updated: April 30, 2025

He was aglow with animal spirits, and his conversation naively brilliant and of uncommon import. This radiantly-vicious child was the embodiment of the joy of life, the perfect immoralist. There was no cynicism in his nature, no cruelty, no obliquity, no remorse; nothing but sunshine with a few clouds sailing across the fathomless blue spaces the sky of Hellas.

Norman Douglas - Old Calabria