"So too, Beardsley's is a textual world, inscribed and superinscribed with decorative motifs--in which for example, pearls embroidered over a blood-red slipper may be worn over a white silk stocking drawn over a leg painted over with black silhouettes. The ubiquitous decorative motifice, moreover, are to be 'read' as texts, for the inhabitants of a
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