drawing | beauty

oscar wilde wrote DE PROFUNDIS, as he waited on release from imprisonment, after a marital brawl conviction; the details of which i leave in the middle here. i would however like to lift out a short excerpt from DE PROFUNDIS, a quote that was repeated in the V&A exhibition THE CULT OF BEAUTY, in 2011, and which i transcribed in my travel journal. i may not feel convinced by what he is saying at first glance [debating on the sorrow bit], but it did catch my ear as i was walking those galleries.

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myself not overly wild on wilde, i thought of him as a jumping board to our theme. 
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earlier this week i drifted from the thrift shop's children's games to the books section, humming a recognizable tune. 
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in this leisurely fashion i found what i was looking for: another vintage artis-historia reference book on animals. as i leafed through it, i discovered him, again [that's right, i've a few of the same books now, all ready to be torn up, but not just yet], and i was grateful. 
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now i could kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.

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i don't think there is another bird as jolly as this a-one, the superb bird of paradise {lophorina superba}, unless i am mistaking {which is probable}. 
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trying to get him good and proper on paper, and let him have his say, proofed to be all part of this week's challenge.
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by all means, please do watch included below video clip, [if only for richard attenboroughs cajoling voice and phantasmagoric transcript], and let the elaborate and stunning male play draw you in, you won't be disappointed. 
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in fact you might even yearn to be wooed like this, from now on ... ☻



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