The Chronicles Of Peculiar Desires In The Briti... <WORKING ⟶>

Take, for instance, the , William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck. His peculiar desire was simple: never to be seen. To achieve this, he constructed 15 miles of tunnels beneath his estate at Welbeck Abbey. His desires didn't stop at solitude; he insisted his food be delivered via a miniature railway system so he wouldn't have to acknowledge a servant. The Hermits of the Garden

What desire drove Lord Elgin to saw the marbles off the Parthenon? Not mere greed, but a peculiar colonial eros: the desire to possess beauty so completely that you rip it from its home and rehouse it in your own. This is desire as domination—what the psychoanalyst might call incorporation: to love something so much you must consume it. The Chronicles of Peculiar Desires in the Briti...