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Updated: May 11, 2025
Ninnies, simperers, and simpletons have vanished. The poor, suffering human frame becomes a horrible musical instrument from which the artist extorts exquisite and sinister music. We turn our heads away, but the tune of cracking souls haunts our ear. As much to Rops as to Baudelaire, Victor Hugo could have said that he had evoked a new shudder.
LYRA: Warmly, was it? ASTRAEA: You are not blamed, my dear: he has a winning manner. LYRA: I take him to be a manly young fellow, smart enough; handsome too. ASTRAEA: Oh, he has good looks. LYRA: And a head, by repute. ASTRAEA: For the world's work, yes. LYRA: Not romantic. ASTRAEA: Romantic ideas are for dreamy simperers. LYRA: Amazons repudiate them. ASTRAEA: Laugh at me.
How the simperers would sheer off; the tea that night might as well be made of aqua-fortis. Ha! ha! I can fancy the scene before me. Nothing could be more rich. I must give her a glimpse of such a scene. It will be a very good mode of operation. Her pride and vanity will do the rest.
Yet what a judgment in some things! What keen discrimination! What a wild, governless imagination! She would be a prize, if it were only to exhibit. How she would startle the dull, insipid, tea-table simperers on our Helicon nay, with what scorn she would traverse the Helicon itself. The devil is that she would have a will in spite of her keeper. Such an animal is never tamed.
For they were going back they had been brilliantly sure of it Oliver had only to finish his novel that was so much better already than any novel Nancy had ever read sell a number of copies of it that seemed absurdly small in proportion to the population of America and then they could live where they pleased and Oliver could compose Great Works and Nancy get ahead with her very real and delicate talent for etching instead of having to do fashion-drawings of slinky simperers in Lucile dresses or appetite-arousing paintings of great cans of tomato soup.
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