a. natasha joukovsky
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After Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, where he tracks allusions to whales and cetology, I keep a running list of references to recursion, innovation, mythology, and glamour.
Donna Tartt | THE SECRET HISTORY
"His students--if they were any mark of his tutelage--were imposing enough, and different as they all were they shared a certain coolness, a cruel, mannered charm which was not modern in the least..."
Joris-Karl Huysmans | À REBOURS
"Formerly, during his Parisian days, his love for artificiality had led him to abandon real flowers and to use in their place replicas faithfully executed by means of the miracles performed with India rubber and wire..."