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  1. May 2023
    1. CHAPTER NINE

      Chapter XI in 1891.

      From WINWAR 166: This chapter is almost a synthesis of À Rebours in its detailed themes of aestheticism.

    2. and in a long latticed room, with a vermilion-and-gold ceiling and walls of olive-green lacquer, he used to give curious concerts in which mad gypsies tore wild music from little zithers, or grave yellow-shawled Tunisians plucked at the strained strings of monstrous lutes,

      From WINWAR 166: Wilde imitated Gustave Moreau’s jeweled words, exotic effects, catalogues of offities that intoxicated with their very sound, cast a spell over his pages, drugging the senses.