frillery

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I'm to be her maid of honor in August, so of course there were flowers and frillery to discuss, but mostly we just acted like unrefined sillies.

luvabeans Diary Entry luvabeans 2004
Connolly's survey begins with the rococo frillery that decorates books about Bath and Edinburgh by Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell and ends with the bristling, hypodermic New York skyline on the cover of Nick Flynn's Another Bullshit Night in Suck City; it goes from Ezra Pound's Polite Essays, chastely announced by black letters on a lilac ground, to Hanif Kureishi's Something to Tell You, which has a wraparound orgy on its cover, with rubbery figures illustrating every possible sexual combination and contortion, awash in a sea of spermatic tadpoles.

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