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Exactly, Octave Mirbeau. What' s so interesting about 'Le jardin des supplices' is that it contrasts the beauty and exotic location of a 19th century China with its tortures; for example the culmination takes place in a wonderful orchid garden, which is fed by the body parts of the prisoners and...

You should read the complete run; you know de Sade, Baudelaire, Mirbeau...or even Le Fanu (Green Tea). The main characters in all these stories are female libertines (like the female character in 'THOTE') , especially de Sades' Justine et Juliette where you have a dialectic between Justine and...

The human being is this night, this empty nothing, that contains everything in its simplicity--an unending wealth of many representation, images, of which none belongs to him--or which are not present. This night, this interior of nature, that exists here--pure self--in phantasmagorical...