It seems like it would take real strength to consume something like that, a kind of strength that consumptives could hardly have had! I imagine loud, frumpy, vulgar women drooling at the opportunity to down a drought of the sacred substance.
The rough trade is just too much! And here I had vaguely remembered reading somewhere that Jean Lorrain lived with his mother.
Jean Lorrain Biographical Data:dr_bathybiusNovember 10 2008, 18:25:50 UTC
You are quite right, dearest Herr Algabal! His mother actually survived him (attending to his failing health until the bitter end). Between the stomach disorder he self-created by drinking ether, to the self-administered fatal blow which was a perforated colon caused by a particularly aggressive application of high-colonic, it was a series of gravely unlucky missteps that lead to his downfall (and the above are only the medical reasons, the social and legal aspects of his dazzling lifestyle had taken their own unique toll
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Thank you, My dear LadyKalessia, for your noble and selfless contribution to Pogonological research ('Pogonology' being the study and cultivation of men's facial hair).
I am both humbled and delighted with your 'find'. Your vigilance is regarded with much appreciation.
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It seems like it would take real strength to consume something like that, a kind of strength that consumptives could hardly have had! I imagine loud, frumpy, vulgar women drooling at the opportunity to down a drought of the sacred substance.
The rough trade is just too much! And here I had vaguely remembered reading somewhere that Jean Lorrain lived with his mother.
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I am both humbled and delighted with your 'find'. Your vigilance is regarded with much appreciation.
Your humble servant ever,
Dr.B. 8^}D-
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