"Аменхотеп, ты помнишь тот мотив..."

[re_miel]

Чувствую себя язычником, священные каменные скрижали которого были переизданы в мягкой обложке, с глянцевыми картинками и предисловием обьясняющим их значимость в борьбе за дело Марксизма-Ленинизма...

"Du Dandysme et de George Brummel", культовое философско-выпендрежное эссэ незабвенного Barbey d'Aurevilly, снова в печати на английском. В новом переводе.

С розовой обложкой.

И вышеупомянутое предисловие, на полкниги, преисполненно просто необычайным развлекательным потенциалом. Обьясняя нам, доходчиво, как дело дэндиизма живет и торжествует в сердцах тех, кто сейчас и теперь. К примеру:

...one of the most outrè devices Brummel and his circle hit upon was of distressing their clothes by rubbing the cloth with glasspaper. Barbey swoons at their daring:

"They were at the end of their impertinence, they just couldn't go any further... They had their clothes distressed before they put them on, all over the cloth, to the point where it was no more than a sort of lace - a cloud. They wanted to walk in clouds, these gods!"

Such aristocratic caprice seems alien to our era - until we remember that before the clothes companies began to do it for them people would wash and re-wash, or fray and fret, their jeans. Their aim is elegance, but the form it takes has been stood on its head. When young (or middle-aged) go to infinite pains to degrade the cloth of their denims or buy them readily aged their intention is not to create an effect of lace, of airy aristocracy, but the opposite: to present themselves as notional members of a largely defunct industrial or agricultural manual working class. They do not walk as gods, but as equally mythical proletarians...

Ну-ну...