Category Archive: Big Sensations
Star Man
In Medieval times, today would’ve been a big day. There’s something astrologists call a Cardinal T cross underway in the skies August 6th through 7th, which means….I have no idea what. But I know it’s big. Centuries ago, the well-educated…
Rock On
It’s hammock season. The Victorians and Edwardians brought this 16th century maritime necessity to bourgeois backyard, where they swung with abandon. The item neatly enmeshes several threads running through Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: the illicit thrill of reclining, and of swinging,…
Bursting through Air
“Fireworks” is one of the 100 entries in the Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. Nothing could better express the beauty, outrageous folly and primal attraction that I try to describe in 100 different ways in the book. So, in honor of…
Jacht-ing
The waterways here in Maine are full of pretty wooden boats these days. And for that we can thank England’s King Charles II and the Dutch. The King, who was in exile in Holland during the mid-1600s, brought back a yacht,…
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