NP Nothing exceeds like excess ...

[jbor]

A recent book about aspects of "the Gothick imagination" reviewed, with a 
number of references to recent list topics, at

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0102/10/books/A20598-2001Feb8.html

review excerpt:

"If any one thing characterises all phases or instances of gothic taste it
is reliance on the irrational, although this lies too at the heart of ideas
about the nature of the sublime, also much in vogue in English culture at
the time of the formation of gothic taste."

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