{"id":24986,"date":"2010-06-17T16:03:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=24986"},"modified":"2010-06-17T20:00:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T20:00:38","slug":"rip-sebastian-horsley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/rip-sebastian-horsley\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Sebastian Horsley"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Writer, artist and Soho dandy Sebastian Horsley has died of a suspected heroin overdose, just days after after a play based on his memoir opened in London<\/a>. As Toby Young<\/a> says, “I’ve met a few Soho characters in my day and most of them were drunken bores. Not Sebastian.”<\/em> He continues:<\/p>\n

“He styled himself an artist, but his true genius was for conversation. Aphorisms and one-liners came pouring out of his mouth like gusts of fresh air, blowing away received wisdom and herd opinion like so many cobwebs. He was steeped in the works of Oscar Wilde, but could just as easily quote Balzac or Flaubert. I never spent an evening with him without having to write down something he’d said immediately afterwards.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Asked by 3:AM<\/em>‘s Sophie Parkin<\/a> as to why Dandy in the Underworld<\/em> couldn’t have a happy ending, Horsley replied, “Because anything that consoles is fake. You see, the good ended happily, and the bad unhappily, that is what fiction means.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Further:<\/strong> Tom Jeffreys’<\/a> tribute to Horsley \/ A conversation between Horsley & Tony O’Neill<\/a> \/ Sebastian’s introduction to the Decadent Handbook<\/a><\/em> \/ Guardian<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writer, artist and Soho dandy Sebastian Horsley has died of a suspected heroin overdose, just days after after a play based on his memoir opened in London. As Toby Young says, “I’ve met a few Soho characters in my day and most of them were drunken bores. Not Sebastian.” He continues: “He styled himself an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}