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IN THE MODERN VEIN AN UNSYMPATHETIC LOVE STORY
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Of course the cultivated reader has heard of Aubrey Vair. He has published on three several occasions volumes of delicate verses,—some, indeed, border on indelicacy,
—and his column “Of Things Literary” in the “Climax” is well known. His Byronic visage and an interview have appeared in the “Perfect Lady.” It was Aubrey Vair,
I believe, who demonstrated that the humour of Dickens was worse than his sentiment, and who detected “a subtle bourgeois1 flavour” in Shakespeare. However, it is not
generally known that Aubrey Vair has had erotic experiences as well as erotic inspirations. He adopted Goethe some little time since as his literary prototype, and
For it is one of the commonest things that undermine literary men, giving us landslips and picturesque3 effects along the otherwise even cliff of their respectable
life, ranking next to avarice4, and certainly above drink, this instability called 460genius, or, more fully5, the consciousness of genius, such as Aubrey Vair
possessed6. Since Shelley set the fashion, your man of gifts has been assured that his duty to himself and his duty to his wife are incompatible7, and his renunciation
of the Philistine8 has been marked by such infidelity as his means and courage warranted. Most virtue9 is lack of imagination. At any rate, a
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redeeming
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