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Only a Romantic Army will stop the philistines.
Theophile Gautier was there at The Battle of Hernani to defend Victor Hugo’s 1830 play.
#Hernani#romantics#theophile gautier#romanticism#victor hugo#1830s#paris#bouzingo#thegreatchainingofbeing#iandrewforsyth
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The Great Chaining of Being
Chapter 2: No one knew what to call it: was it a galley, brig, bark, skiff, or float? A sled, cart, barrow, or carryall? A dredge, carrack, or scow? Whatever one might name it, it'd no use of formal titles. It rocked and waved and rolled like wine in a jug.
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#ship of fools#drukeness#blashphemy#renissance#thegreatchainingofbeing#iandrewforsyth#bohemian#clowns
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The Great Chaining of Being
Chapter 1: The asylum was pitiful. As they all were across Europe. The undesired died here—still raw, or fidgeting for the end.
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#Rimbaud#breton#beats#beat generation#baudelaire#literature#surrealism#sylvia plath#thegreatchainingofbeing#iandrewforsyth
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The blood of the poet is deep,
At times only the sharpest of tools,
will extract the deepest of thoughts.
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Montparnasse in the 20s, a paradise for writers and artists.
Our three bohemians have been here more than once.
#thegreatchainingofbeing#novel#literature#avant-garde#paris in the 20s#paris#1920s#montparnasse#iandrewforsyth
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Mathilda Lund will not bend to male artists, she never compromises her poetry for men.
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Ambrose Gaston goes nowhere without his cane, better to crack Andre Breton in the head that way. The papers will read: Infinitism murders Surrealism!
#thegreatchainingofbeing#paris#literature#historical fiction#iandrewforsyth#infinitism#surrealism#andre breton#avant-garde
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Andre Breton: The Dictator and Pope of Surrealism
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The Great Chaining of Being
Chapter 3: My soul hangs on a meat hook between worlds. I'm good as Hiroshima ash. My selves dissolve like an old whore's petticoats exposed to a Roman mob of moths. On to Paradise old crone.
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#bohemian#transhumanism#thegreatchainingofbeing#iandrewforsyth#antiphoenix#suicide#nothingness#female artist#female poet#emily dickinson#slyvia plath
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