Raymond

From the darker side of Dandyism

 

 "in a course of drunken gaiety and gross sensuality, with intervals of study perhaps yet more criminal, with an avowed contempt of decency and order, a total disregard to every moral, and a resolute denial of every religious observation, he lived worthless and useless, and blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness".

Samuel Johnson on John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1647 - 1680)

Preface to my Poetry

Le Piano 

Flâneur

Of Beasts and Men... 

To Fallen Comrades 

l’Absinthe 

Chopin’s Waltz 

Adoration 

Beauty after Death 

Cut Roses and Broken Hearts 

Of Salacious Sanguine Solutions 

Méduse

Of Sunlight, Irony and Pranks...

On women:

Adoration of the harmonious Female Form... 

Encens Feminin 

Nox 

Mors Veneris  

Of Clowns, Betrayal and Wine... 

Norturno de la estatua

On the subject of Opium

Beside a little [opium] lamp 

Bel Époch/Mal Époch translations

Le Sacrilège

Symbole 

Larves 

Morphine 

Beauty in Ugliness/Ugliness in Beauty

Oraisons Mauvaises 

Papillons Noirs 

To Kali 

Alarm Bells 

Le Rire 

Images

Ma Cigarette

Praise Blindnesse Eies  

City of Dreadful Night 

Frissons de Fleurs 

A vision of Hell 

Cloaca Maxima 

from J.K. Huysmans' A Rebours 

How to create a criminal [one of the adventuress of des Esseintes]

 Pogonology: the fine art of facial hair 

Pogonology lecture

A Decadent music project

L'Egregore 

German translations

Mutter 

Spanish translations

Volverán las oscuras golondrinas... 

 

A tribute 

 


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