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Baroque
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One hundred years of solitude.
"There is always something left to love."
I think about wanting you back.
I think of not wanting you back.
And all the things in between.
Sometimes I miss you.
Sometimes I don't.
Like my weakness, I go back to remembering you all the time.
So I built myself an imaginary friend, wandered through all its dark shelves.
I made it home.
I brought genie out of its bottle.
I didn't want a wish because you are a dangerous thing to have.
I've been there before, and no
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The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual level. With its emphasis on aberration and artifice, the decadents' approach to the language of fiction frequently leans towards the baroque and the obscure.
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― The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
― The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
