Cafe Dorian

Queer Academia, Dark Academia, Gay Literature & Art, Queer History, Cafe Culture, Absinthe, Gothic Decadence, Masculine Beauty. “Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book. There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.” ~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Edmund Blair Leighton (English, 1852 – 1922) The Accolade (1901)

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LEO WOODALL Elle UK, 2025

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Red-figure kylix with youth and his lover (interior) and youths and men in athletic activities (exterior), attributed to the Carpenter Painter

Greek (manufactured at Athens) Archaic Period, c. 510-500 B.C.

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Getty Museum

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Hôtel Beauharnais, Rue de Lille, Paris,

Salon des quatre saisons & Salon de Musique,

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The Bow Tie Crowd.

Tennessee Williams.

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Lucien Freud, Clifford Coffin, Vogue, Delamere Terrace, Paddington, March 18th, 1947 © Condé Nast Archive ..

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In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway’s doomed and dashing hero gets asked by his Spanish Civil War comrades whether our United States could be likewise infested by fascists. He informs them: “There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”

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First edition of George Eliot's (1819-1880) Middlemarch, in 8 parts, William Blackwood & Sons, 1871-72.

Middlemarch was something of an experiment in the serial form, appearing as it did in eight irregularly published 'books,' each with its own title. As John Sutherland notes [see Victorian Novelists, p.188], the format gave author and publisher simultaneous access to two markets, offering both "the stiff covers and narrative wholeness associated with the library volume" and "the price and deferred payment associated with the serial." Eliot's husband and acting business agent George Henry Lewes first proposed the idea to Blackwood, who required some persuading after the relative commercial failure of Felix Holt, which had sold far fewer copies than were printed. A compromise was struck, Blackwood printed close to 6,000 copies (Lewes had suggested 10,000), and the parts issue of Middlemarch sold out completely. The experiment was repeated with Daniel Deronda, also with great success. (x)

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Hermes. 6th Century Byzantine Mosaics

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E P M H C = HERMES

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— Bertrand Russell, from “What Desires Are Politically Important?” (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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Stephen Carver goes in search of an author who 'remains as enigmatic as his fiction'.

Franz Kafka-themed graffiti Zizkov District, Prague, Czech Republic