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Morbid
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By now, I can only see with the help of sunlight. Once the sun sets, I am taken down into the valley of shadows.
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― The Boneyard: Short fictions of the morbid and macabre: The Boneyard Series: Vol 1
― The Boneyard: Short fictions of the morbid and macabre: The Boneyard Series: Vol 1
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In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the love with which so many stories end – the love of fidelity, kindness and fertility – but the other side of love, its cruelty, sterility and duplicity. In a way, the decadents did accept Nordau's idea of the artist as monster. But in nature, the glory and panacea of romanticism, they found nothing. Theirs is an aesthetic that disavows the natural and with it the body. The truly beau
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― The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
― The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
