"Ce qu'il y a d'enivrant dans le mauvais goût, c'est le plaisir aristocratique de déplaire."
— Charles Baudelaire

January 1, 1970

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What is intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of offensiveness. — XVIII