Word: sensualism
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...types. One is Buzzy Bellew, hard-glazed headliner at the Pelican Club, half insane with self-appreciation; the other is Buzzy's super-identical twin brother Edwin, a meek, bleak, gentle tome-prowler who spends most of his time at the Public Library, and adequately maps out his sensual life When he tells a pretty librarian (Virginia Mayo): "I love the smell of leather bindings...
...ordinary laws. He was the last of the aristocrats in a world being turned over to mob rule. He followed his exquisite sensations wherever they might lead him; personal excess was his right. Poet Baudelaire managed to combine all the ideals: he smoked hashish, lived with Negresses, wrote brilliant, sensual, satanic poems. But, as an aristocrat, he dressed immaculately in the British manner and learned to drop phlegmatic monosyllables out of the corner of his mouth...
...City of Dreadful Night) crept starving to the bed of a blind friend, who stretched out his hands and withdrew them covered with the blood of Thomson's fatal hemorrhage. Simeon Solomon died in a poorhouse; consumption killed Ernest Dowson (Cynara) at 33. Brilliant Aubrey Beardsley, whose delicate, sensual illustrations for Wilde's Salome became more famous than the play itself, died of tuberculosis, complicated by high living, at 25, leaving a curt, harrowing letter to a friend...
...Colombia's Poet-Novelist José Eustasio Rivera on the jungle: "No cooing nightingales here, no Versaillian gardens or sentimental vistas! Instead the croaking of dropsical frogs ... the aphrodisiac parasite that covers the ground with dead insects, the disgusting blooms that throb with sensual palpitations. . . . Stretched from tree to palm in long, elastic curves, like carelessly hung nets [the lianas catch] falling leaves, branches, and fruits, [hold] them for years until they sag and burst like rotten bags, scattering blind reptiles, rusty salamanders, hairy spiders . . . the comejen grub gnaws at the trees like quick-spreading syphilis . . .; everywhere...
...next world ("an all-pervading silence that shone and was alive. Beautiful with more than the beauty of even Mozart's music. . . ."), he was embarrassed to find his digestive processes continuing with a "purring" noise. If he tried hard, he managed to recapture physical sensations and sensual memories of Mimi. But to his horror he found himself faced by the same spiritual problems as had dogged him on earth. A "divine white light" kept trying to make a decent human being out of him, but Eustace preferred to float vacuously throughout eternity rather than give...