How to Become Artifice

Vernon Lee: MacMillan's "On Modern Traveling" (1894)-- "HONOR THE TOURIST, HE WALKS IN A HALO OF ROMANCE." (311)

"As we shall see, this aesthetic logic impacts in the nature of autobiography in the last years of the 19th century; the mode ceases to be merely a way of relating a soul's fruitless search for eternal beauty; it aestheticizes the self by transforming concrete being into artifice. Autobiography becomes the most effective way of living one's art and dying one's life; it corresponds, on the personal, physical level, to the metaphoric eras of Unity of Being on the level of historical consciousness."

"Decadent Spaces" in Decadence in the 1890s. by Jan B. Gordon. Ed: Bradbury and Palmer.

(Explanation for why I cut. Explanation for why I save things.)