V-2nd C4 The Search for Bridey Murphy / corrigenda

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In Adams's novel, _Esther_ an artist, can't recall his name at the
moment, goes to hospitals looking for models. Kinda like those famous
artist frankenstein types who would grab bodies still warm from the
infirmeries and graves. He wants models that are not dead yet, but
almost dead, or in very bad shape, kinda like the pilot who has his
face torn up in the Shoe maker biographical young P sketches here in
his V., only the faces can't be damaged cause the reason he wants
these models is that he wants to look at the passion, the agony, the
suffering in their faces as he works. Again, you know Adams is not
known for his humor, but he is a funny guy and reading a desription of
a man and his young lady friend riding horses, well, I could swear
he's describing sex. An old trick, and students always say, it's the
way I read it. Why, I could read little red riding hood and make a
tender teen or twenty something drop his/her texting device and sit up
straight. Speaking of straight and who is, that mention of feudal
labor and homosexual adoration sure put lead in my pencil. He was just
17, and it was 1917, and you know what THAT means. As Henry Adams
always sez, read your Wiki:
Fin de siècle is French for "end of the century". The term sometimes
encompasses both the closing and onset of an era, as it was felt to be
a period of degeneration, but at the same time a period of hope for a
new beginning.“Fin de siècle” is most commonly associated with French
artists, especially the French symbolists, and was affected by the
cultural awareness characteristic of France at the end of the 19th
century. However, the expression is also used to refer to a
European-wide cultural movement.The ideas and concerns of the fin de
siècle influenced the decades to follow and played an important role
in the birth of modernism.