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Saturday, August 7, 2010

First Lines: Joris-Karl Huysmans - Against Nature


(art: Odilon Redon)

Judging by the few portraits that have been preserved in the Chateau de Lourps, the line of the Floressas des Esseintes consisted, in bygone days, of muscular warriors and grim looking mercenaries.