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Angela Carter

“With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring teeth through the crimson walls, rending them; the ravenous garden slavered over its prey and every brick was shown in the act of falling. Amid the violence of this transformation, the oblivion of the embrace went on. The awakened girl, in all her youthful loveliness, still clasped in the arms of a lover from whom all the flesh had fallen. He was a grinning skeleton.”

Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
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