Notwithstanding his clothes, there was an air of breeding about him, unconcealable, a thing apart, even, from his good looks.

As I will present it, the first moment identifies the problematics of reading what was deemed vulgar. The subsequent two moments suggest containment strategies, namely antiquitization and poeticization. The final moment delineates the effect of these strategies, namely the disappearance of the body in any capacity other than its poetic voice.

And now she knows, just what those fluttering eyelashes can do, just what that come hither look means.

The lens was misted.