I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotes
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The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in na
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Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he neve
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To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, i
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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of.... I have always wagered against God and I rega
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In short, camp mocks bad taste; kitsch exploits it. Camp arouses our sense of the ridiculous and we respond with amused tolerance.
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After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.
"The city's grotesque iron skeletons
Would knock their drunken penthouse heads together ...
Would knock their drunken penthouse heads together ...
I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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