The happy couple.
Posted on 01/29/2020 7:19:22 AM PST by C19fan
A man who lives like a Victorian and claims to be one of England's most eligible bachelors has finally met the woman of his dreams who shares his passion for the 1800s. Michael Koropisz, 24, a classical portrait painter from Stockport, Greater Manchester, refuses to watch television and writes with a quill and ink. The Victorian enthusiast insists on living in the past by dressing strictly in clothes from the 19th century and filling his house with antiques. Despite getting odd glances from strangers, Michael claims that his unique lifestyle leaves him inundated with offers from the opposite sex - and he has now found a match in Charlotte Brindley, 21.
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Good marketing plan..............................
Uses quill and ink, yet found his match on Instagram... now that’s just dumb.
The happy couple.
Interesting. I'd check him out, but I guess he does not have a website, Twitter account or Facebook. Etc.
This is the kind of “slightly odd” I can endorse.
eschew antibiotics.
“Uses quill and ink, yet found his match on Instagram... now that’s just dumb.”
Probably has GPS in the carriage also.
Hi.
A question for the Annoyingly Over moderated group.
How do Victorians have sex? Missionary position only, or other stuff?
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Science Fiction writer Neal Stephenson wrote a wonderful book called “The Diamond Age”. It envisions a future of nanotechnology and a society coming to grips with global social disruption in the post-20th century world. There is no global government. There are also no nation states. Instead, there are “distributed republics” made up of people who can live anywhere but have “citizenship” within a defined social grouping. (Like a church which is “people” and not “a building on Elm Street.”)
The most powerful group are the New Victorians. Very rich, very high tech they have achieved enormous success in this future world. In large part, because they are more disciplined, more controlled, more moral than other groups. They deliberately copy Victorian values and this gives them advantages over other groups which have not fully abandoned the failed values of the 20th century.
Quite a good read, and written in a style rather similar to Dickens novel.
A man and a woman, how novel!
I love the Victorian era. So I decided to live in it.
Allow This Man Who Lives Every Day as a Regency Dandy to Inspire Your Wildest Clothing Choices
As a bonus, while I found these, I also found this article:
How the Victorians turned mere beasts into man’s best friends
I clicked on it, because I misread "beasts" as another word.
Okay, I got a gift card for Books a Million for Christmas, and that seems interesting enough to buy.
Good friends come in pairs.
Sadly, his love is dying of “consumption.”
And learn to love the smell of burnt coal and horse dung
Well, all those banned books by the Marquis De Sade sold well (if under the table) in Victorian times so there is that.
LOL
“Uses quill and ink, yet found his match on Instagram... now that’s just dumb.”
Not completely. We can churn out words on a keyboard much faster than we can churn out thoughts that are worthy of recording.
I imagine that no two quill pens produce exactly the same lines. I’d say that handwriting, especially with a quill pen, is a beautiful way of recording thoughts (assuming the writing is legible).
It's refreshing to read that instead of 'the gay couple'...
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