Nguyễn Hữu Toàn
(hyper2002)
Member
To Constance Lunamière:
Dear Constance,
I felt almost exhilarated by our acquaintance last night. You certainly had your style at conversations - quite original it is, too, if I may say. Your charm in asserting facts nearly struck me as that of a cultured person, who, through a series of unfortunate and uncultured events, had got that uncommon thing called common sense. Telling truths might be rare in our society, but it is the movement of bluntness - of which your style had so reflected - that is the champion of its all – both overtly exquisite, and exquisitely overt, at the same time! ‘Tis, however, I must confess, might be your greatest shortcoming: The occasional seriousness in your remarks portray but a self-contradictory to your genius. You must remain – I implore you, for your own sake and mine – a connoisseur of pleasures, no matter how perverse the public deem them to be. Your rather quite fine taste in cigarettes, wine and perfumes, you must indulge them, and en effect, indulge yourself!
As for myself, I hold true to my heart the movement of dandyism, which, in essence, is almost identical to the movement of aestheticism (except that one usually costs more than the other).
Yours sincerely,
8.19.07
Oscar
Dear Constance,
I felt almost exhilarated by our acquaintance last night. You certainly had your style at conversations - quite original it is, too, if I may say. Your charm in asserting facts nearly struck me as that of a cultured person, who, through a series of unfortunate and uncultured events, had got that uncommon thing called common sense. Telling truths might be rare in our society, but it is the movement of bluntness - of which your style had so reflected - that is the champion of its all – both overtly exquisite, and exquisitely overt, at the same time! ‘Tis, however, I must confess, might be your greatest shortcoming: The occasional seriousness in your remarks portray but a self-contradictory to your genius. You must remain – I implore you, for your own sake and mine – a connoisseur of pleasures, no matter how perverse the public deem them to be. Your rather quite fine taste in cigarettes, wine and perfumes, you must indulge them, and en effect, indulge yourself!
As for myself, I hold true to my heart the movement of dandyism, which, in essence, is almost identical to the movement of aestheticism (except that one usually costs more than the other).
Yours sincerely,
8.19.07
Oscar
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