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What to Read This Week: Trauma, Decadence & Silent Town Criers

1 min readMay 31, 2021

Aestheticism and Decadence

This fall I’m taking a course in aestheticism and decadence, so I did a little preliminary reading. I’m so excited for this class and all the reading that goes with it.

Aestheticism and decadence

'Art for art's sake'? Aestheticism and decadence shocked the Victorian establishment by challenging traditional values…

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Silent Town Criers

This year, the Loyal Company of Town Criers held its competition in silence. Town criers were judged based on their writing, which is quite a twist. I

How Do You Win a Silent Town Crier Competition?

"It's an extreme sport," says Alistair Chisholm. "The secret is to read the weather forecast, and to wait for that…

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Here’s a video of a competition from a few years ago: