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The Savoy (1896)

Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945, Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898 · London, L. Smithers · leaf 92

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thout them, even an excellent figure may appeara little extreme, in one direction or another. It is with a finer taste, afterall, that in England the women are not allowed to bathe with the men,are kept out of sight as much as possible. A sentimental sensualist shouldavoid the French seaside. He… … costume, only a grotesque and shapeless image, all in pits and protuberances,for which Nature should be ashamed to accept responsibility. Completenudity, there is no doubt, has its charm, though of a somewhat primitive kind; 88 THE SAVOY but this state of being undressed and yet covered, in this…

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