The fainting trope appears in this, from a biography of Lord Byron: "At a ball in London . . . a woman fainted at the sight of him; another warned her daughter, ''Don't look at him, he is dangerous to look at.'' One-time lovers, like the louche Mrs. Wherry, cherished fetishistic mementos of his person -- including black curling locks of his pubic hair -- like magic talismans." https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/13/reviews/970413.13castlet.html
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Date: 2015-08-09 04:30 pm (UTC)https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/13/reviews/970413.13castlet.html