For those such as our friend
Gérard, to whom a freedom of
style comes naturally, obser-
vance of Casual Friday tends
less to try the imagination,
than to transport it by ref-
erences commemorating the oc-
casion. When a Casual Friday
falls upon the 2nd Friday be-
fore the election of any fe-
male President, he restores
us to that endless night of
Strauss, when a trouser rôle
is redistributed with a cer-
tain poignancy of destiny.
Our Trumpkins, while he's
at it, adopt the same motif
from a fundamentalist at-
tachment to Le roman de la
rose, that breviary of the
aristocracy as Huizinga had
it, signalling the waning
of the Middle Ages to which
they are so fondly attached.
They do own a deity of love
who locks the heart, bigly,
but this is to mingle cross-
ing and dressing by missing,
once again, the whole point.
Sophie Koch
Octavian
2016
National Library of Wales
Manuscript plate
The goddess of love
locks the lover's heart
14th C
Boulevardier
2016
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