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[wonderwelsh]

"Aspects of the gem as a model for queer visuality emerge in chapter four of Against Nature, in which Des Esseintes takes us through a catalogue of jewels, all possible candidates for the camp adornment of his tortoise."

Best. Sentence. Ever.

I also like the bit later in the article where she goes on to talk about the recent "advent of bling" in relation to late ninteenth-century decadence...