Ronald Firbank — English Novelist born on January 17, 1886,

Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was an innovative British novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist largely of dialogue, with references to religion, social-climbing, and sexuality... (wikipedia)

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.
She made a ravishing corpse.