Blissfully Bohemian
From the annals of The House of Beauty and Culture, this definition of the bohemian (not unlike our inscrutably distinguished aesthete):
The Bohemian is by nature, if not by habit, a cosmopolite, with a general sympathy for the fine arts, and for all things above and beyond convention. The Bohemian is not, like the creature of society, a victim of rules and customs; s/he steps over them with an easy, graceful, joyous unconsciousness, guided by the principles of good taste and feeling. Above: Ada Clare, known to New York in the 1860s as the Queen of Bohemia. Mrs. Fairbairn (Nancy Cunard) by Alvaro Guevara 1919
Tell me whom you haunt, and I’ll tell you who you are. – Surrealist André Breton
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