I study literature, theatre, and French at an art-fag school in Vermont and am preparing for (something like) a career in dramaturgy and/or criticism.

Things I love:

absinthe, aesthetes, aesthetics, androgyny, antiques, anti-theism, argyle socks, art nouveau, Arthurian legends, atheism, Baudelaire, beauty, black comedy, blasphemy, books, Boston, burlesque, camp, cigarette holders, classics, clothes, coffee, concerts, corsets, cosmetics, costumes, curiosity cabinets, Dada, dandyism, dead languages, decadence, decay, deportment, Dita von Teese, drag queens, elocution, England, ennui, erotica, Europe, evil, expressionism, faeries, fantasy, fashion, femme fatales, film, le fin-de-siècle, fine art, fops, frock coats, girls, glam rock, gothic rock, hedonism, high heels, irony, Latin, laughter, linguistics, literature, lust, manners, Middle English, Monty Python, music, mythology, Nat Shermans, Old English, opulence, orchids, Oscar Wilde, perfume, philosophy, poetry, pretension, queer things, reading, refinement, regency gentlemen, Rocky Horror, S&M, schadenfreude, self-loathing, sex, Shakespeare, singing, spleen, Stephen Fry, surrealism, tea, the BBC, the macabre, the Middle Ages, the poètes maudits, the pre-Raphaelites, the Renaissance, the symbolist movement, theatre, thunder storms, transcendence, tweed. urbanity, vampires, vaudeville, vodka, Weimar, wine, words, writing and wunderkammer.