100th EPISODE SPECTACULAR-AGAINST NATURE by JK Huysmans: RGBIB Ep. 100

Or: I Think I Smell Something Funny in This Bathroom-and That DOESN'T Mean I Don't Like it!
Bedeck your body with pungent oils and spices from Irkutsk, enwrap your fragrant limbs with that royal silk kimono you've been dying to try out, hire a naked virgin to play the zither while you strew rose petals and ambergris upon the surface of your redolent bathwater... yes, it's true, we're talking about the "Aesthete" of all "Aesthetes," J. K. Huysmans! And just wait until you hear me mispronounce "l'art pour l'art"! You gotta hear it to believe it!
Not to mention a mega-spectacular 100th episode featuring naked men on bicycles! Women eating fudge! Dogs with four limbs (and counting)! Balzac! (Did we mention Balzac?) No, we meant Bal-ZACK! And soon, really, Balzac belongs in the bathtub, we promise! Now you-get the hell off that bicycle! You're going to severely injure yourself! Come on, grandpa! I won't ask you again!
HAPPY 100TH EPISODE TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOODNIGHT!

[@slipthetrap]

Congrats 🎉 on 100th! 🚴🏽🤷🏼‍♀️🐕🇫🇷👴🏻 I must say i have learned absolutely nothing of worth yet still enjoyed reading all that you have recommended. Can't hardly wait for the 200th.🤔 Thank you and enjoy! ☮️

[@Scottmbradfield]

Slip the Trap Thanks so much! This course would mean nothing without irredeemably unteachable students like you, Slip! Keep learning nothing! We're here to help! 🎱

[@reaganwiles_art]

I love your candle flame. It never wavers. It's as rigid as my arthritic hip.

[@bedet]

Congrats on 100, Scott! I haven't learned a darn thing, but I sure am clean.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Dan J. And that's all that matters! Thanks, Dan!

[@tonk82]

Congratulations, Scott.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Thanks, Tonk! We love both The King in Yellow AND Pushkin Press here at the bathtub!

[@normanjohnson3850]

@@Scottmbradfield 100th episode and no Manhattan? Unless of cause you were secretly imbibing a glass of absinthe to go with the decadent theme. Looking forward to the next hundred!

[@Scottmbradfield]

Norman Johnson my doctor told me to cut down on the absinthe but mescal is fine! S

[@nocturne90210]

Can someone please spell the book Scott mentions at 12:34 😊

[@Scottmbradfield]

I think you mean SALAMMBO by Flaubert, one of the greatest weird beautiful novels of all time. Stay safe. s

[@turkanfeyzullayeva9720]

This book is so difficult to read 😭

[@Scottmbradfield]

Yeah it can be. Try reading Oscar Wilde's DORIAN GRAY it's similar stuff and more fun to read.

[@turkanfeyzullayeva9720]

@@Scottmbradfield yes I read it .Dorian Gray is amazing book .but against nature is part of my theory of literature class .

[@Scottmbradfield]

@@turkanfeyzullayeva9720 ah-hah! yeah, it's just long riffs on this weird guy's behavior, but the prose is very good, and take it a few dozen pages a day... I found it slow going to... (all the best stuff was cribbed and enlivened by Wilde...)

[@isolationdisorder]

Congratulations on 100 episodes jam - packed with nothing! I have never had so much fun remaining ignorant about literature.

[@Scottmbradfield]

You ain't learned nothing yet!