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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 35 no. 25. 6 October 1972

Aubrey Beardsley

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Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley heading with vignette

Aubrey Beardsley artwork featuring a man standing next to a column reading 'Et In Arcadia Ego'.

Et In Arcadia Ego

Outline of a man's head

Vignette featuring a rose

As Aubrey Beardsley stumbled amongst [unclear: the][gap — reason: illegible] of the deal, so was his life's journey thenceforth to [unclear: being][gap — reason: illegible] struggle to crawl out of the field of the asphodels and [unclear: a[gap — reason: illegible] the] open grave that yawned for him by day and by night. [gap — reason: illegible][unclear: o] feel himself being dragged hack to it again and again by [gap — reason: illegible][unclear: nds] — was to spend his strength in the frantic struggle to [unclear: es][gap — reason: illegible] was to get most out of sight of the green mounds for a [unclear: s][gap — reason: illegible] two, only to find himself drawn back by clammy [unclear: hand] [unclear: Reaper] to the edge open grave again. Death played [gap — reason: illegible][unclear: terrified] man as a cat plays with a mouse — with cruel [unclear: fo][gap — reason: illegible] him into the sunshine on the high road, only [unclear: malicious] him back again in a night. And we who are [unclear: astound] hunting creation's of his imagination that were about [unclear: to] forth throughout two or three years of this agony, [unclear: ou[gap — reason: illegible]ise] that Beardsley wrought these blithe and lyrical [unclear: thing] the terrors of a constant fight for life, for the very breath [unclear: o][gap — reason: illegible] with the gaunt lord of death. We ought to realise that [unclear: Beardsley], by light of his candles, wrought his art, the [unclear: skeleton] an evil ghoul out of the shadows of his room. For, [unclear: rea[gap — reason: illegible]] one turns with added amazement to the gaiety and charm [gap — reason: illegible][unclear: pe] of the Lock. Surely the hideous nightmares that now [unclear: issued] from his plagued brain arc far less a subject for [unclear: bewil][gap — reason: illegible][unclear: an] the fantastic and rollicking wit that tripped from his [unclear: fa]

Beardsley knew he was a doomed man [unclear: ev[gap — reason: illegible] threshhold] of manhood; and he strove with feverish [unclear: intensity] lifetime into each twelve-month. He knew that for him [gap — reason: illegible][unclear: d] be few to-morrows — he knew that he had little to [unclear: wh][gap — reason: illegible] forward, and had best live his life to-day. And he lived [unclear: possessed.]

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Aubrey Beardsley artwork of a woman

Artwork of a young man with a scythe sitting on flora

Isolde

Isolde

"Aubrey"

by [unclear: [gap — reason: illegible]E][unclear: [gap — reason: illegible]fall]