Word: rastignac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terrified warriors of the age of Ethelred and such perennial noblemen of the suicidal beau geste as Claus von Stauffenberg. Different only in degree are the tattooed and/or black-jacketed hoods, the "brave, terrible" queers, "fallen from/ The heights of twenty to middle age," such classic, superannuated hustlers as Rastignac, and "a few with historical/names"--Baudelaire, Caravaggio. Within them all persists the sullenness and flabby dignity of Shakespeare's besotted bed-athlete. Some like him are still determined to "fight maliciously . . . set my teeth, and send to darkness all that stop me." All "mock the midnight bell" with their varied...
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