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Beau Brummell engraving
Today in my Textuality class I learned for the first time of Beau Brummell, (apparently) the original dandy.
You may wonder, what does this have to do with Textuality? If you were familiar with my syllabus, you would further wonder, and what could it possibly have to do with Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground?
Well.
You see, the underground man's neurotic narcicissim makes him, in my professor's opinion, rather rock 'n rollish. And rock 'n roll, it was explained to us, would not exist without dandyism (by way of suaveness, natch). And thus without Beau Brummell, we would have no Kurt Cobain (and no underground man).
Of course, all this has nothing to do with my professor's personal research interests.
Hey, as long as I learn about cool, obscure dandies I'm not complaining.
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