Hi

Falling asleep

Back when I was in college in the early 90s, all the most colorful personal ads were in the back section of the Public News, Houston’s alt newspaper. It was about the only mainstream place at the time where you’d see ads for gay, poly, swinging, etc. relationships.

My favorite ad from those days is from the “men seeking men” section. I still remember it word for word over twenty years later:

Recent amputee into black magic and falconry seeking same.

Thanks to my friend Skias, I discovered this lady. Renée Viven was a british poetess who wrote in French and travelled to Japan. She never recovered from her first obsessionnal love for her childhood friend Violet (and she kept a thing for violets during her life). She had several love affairs afterwards (Nathalie Clifford Barney was crazy about her), but endend in depression. She made a suicide attempt but failed. She didn’t feed properly and she died out of anorexia, alcoholism and drug addiction as she was only 31.

Apparently, she liked historical costumes and I think she is cosplaying Saint Just on this photograph.

She SOOOO makes me thinks of Rei…

But don’t worry Renée… You just need this: