Happy Smiles

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Red Page

This page of mine
Is red in hue.

Red for the sun
and your tie too.

Red banners glow
Upon Red Square,

Happy smiles
Shine everywhere.

--Samuil Marshuk

Samuil Marshak. The Rainbow Book. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974.

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State of Warre :: Anime

Anna May Wong.
Freakin' hard as hell to find her in
anything other than Eastern Lotus get-ups.

Pleasure therefore, (or Delight), is the appearence, or sense of Good. And Molestation, or Displeasure offered by a certain class of Nerdmen who fluently speaketh the Language of Anime, is the appearence, or sense of Evil.

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Onerations and Exonerations

another lovely one from Irving Penn

The word sensuall, as it is used by those onely that condemn them, having no place till there be Lawes governing bad outfits. Of this kind are all Onerations and Exonerations of the body; as also all that is pleasant.

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Technique is Really Personality

Aubrey Beardsley pattern flocked paper. You can get it here.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

Oscar Wilde. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume IV: Criticism: Historical Criticism, Intentions, The Soul of Man. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007.

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Object present

lovely photo, Irving Penn

Of Pleasures, or Delights, some arise from the sense of a handbag Present; And those may be called Pleasures of Sense.

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State of Warre :: Crocs

Of inglorious Crocs, little shall be sayd, as the thing it selfe speaketh the Calamity.

Continue on for an important public service announcement.

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State of Warre :: Backe Packe

Others who yeeld to a Law of Expediency by the keeping of Trifles &c. in a small Backe Packe, and who foregoeth the Dignity and Vertue of the Handbag, shall feel Contempt joyned with Pitty for following the Spirits of Mad-men and Lunatiques.

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