![]() ![]() Like the porn, it was amazingly generative, so that most works of Dada and Surrealism bear the marks of mid-Victorian Englishness, descending from Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, as much as modern erotica takes on those nineteenth-century disguises. ![]() All that sense, decorum, and propriety produced the first fully achieved literature of nonsense. The Victorians, famously puritanical, are also famous for providing the template of modern pornography-the words “Victorian classic” on a paperback have long meant a dirty book-while on the other side of that earnest, progressive Victorian rationality are the mad leaps of Victorian irrationality. Cultures, like caterpillars, crawl forward in contradictions, drawing back and then suddenly springing forward. ![]()
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