Musee fragonard, paris. (Hotlist).www.vet-alfort.fr/fr/musee/musee.htm Founded in 1765 by eccentric veterinarian Honore Fragonard, this museum is a delirium alcohol withdrawal delirium that caused by cessation or reduction in alcohol consumption, typically in alcoholics with many years of heavy drinking, characterized by autonomic hyperactivity, such as tachycardia, sweating, and hypertension, a coarse, irregular tremor, and delusions, vivid hallucinations, and wild, agitated behavior. delirium tre´mens alcohol withdrawal d. of dancing fetuses (preserved by injection with molten wax), a ten-legged sheep, and (my favorite) the portentously titled "Horseman of the Apocalypse apocalypse (əpŏk`əlĭps) [Gr.,=uncovering], genre represented in early Jewish and in Christian literature in which the secrets of the heavenly world or of the world to come are revealed by angelic mediation within a narrative framework. The genre seems to have arisen in Palestine in the 3d cent. B.C.," a flayed man astride a flayed steed. Wandering this dusty little treasure-house, the awestruck visitor finds herself in nature's electroshock electroshock /elec·tro·shock/ (-shok) shock produced by applying electric current to the brain.e·lec·tro·shock (  -l k room, with nothing to bite down on. (Readers who don't speak French can search for "Musee Fragonard" on google.com and auto-translate this site into fractured Frenglish.) Mark Dery is a cultural critic whose byline has appeared in Wired, Rolling Stone, Red Herring, Suck, Feed, Salon, and the New York Times Magazine. His latest book is The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink. |
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