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Hat honour.

"What gives this its peculiar grief—and Watteau knew it, the affliction and the genius arriving together—is that Rococo is not unconscious of what it has lost. The fêtes galantes are pastoral haunted by the knowledge that pastoral is fiction."

"...Sergei Khoruzhii, something of a Renaissance man among whose quite unbelievable achievements is translating Joyce’s Ulysses into Russian." —Victoria Stoilova via

Daughter, your frontier is the brutal jut and dint of their conditioning.