07-02-2024, 06:30 PM
all charming people are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality.
The charismatic women has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual selflove.
Homosexuals, now as then, recognize each other by a mysterious hard meeting of the eyes, a trope of western aggression.
And how charming he had been at dinner the night before, as, with startled eyes and lips parted
in frightened pleasure, he had sat opposite to him at the club, the red candleshades staining to a
richer rose the wakening wonder of his face. Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite
violin. He answered to every touch and thrill of the bow…. There was something terribly
enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one’s soul into
some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one’s own intellectual views
echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one’s temperament
into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume; there was a real joy in that
Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality.
The charismatic women has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual selflove.
Homosexuals, now as then, recognize each other by a mysterious hard meeting of the eyes, a trope of western aggression.
And how charming he had been at dinner the night before, as, with startled eyes and lips parted
in frightened pleasure, he had sat opposite to him at the club, the red candleshades staining to a
richer rose the wakening wonder of his face. Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite
violin. He answered to every touch and thrill of the bow…. There was something terribly
enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one’s soul into
some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one’s own intellectual views
echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one’s temperament
into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume; there was a real joy in that
