“He contemplates his own mortality and finds compensation in the search for knowledge. Of melancholy, madness, and other moods and mysteries. The advantages of early rising and late retiring. An economic slaying and a salutary but not therefore altogether unsadistic rape. Savoir-faire. The rewards of craftsmanship and unceasing professional discipline. How each heartbeat, like toll of funeral bell, has in it something of eternity. BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS Shadowland’s master once more essays. O...f the dual nature of one woman and of a double duel. Death without corpses. TRAPPED IN THE SHADOWLAND Of the intolerably hot, dry texture of life and the alluringly dark, moist landscape of its contrary. How a map may be the territory. Geomancy. Needles and swords. Of loves fled and infatuations pursued. THE BAIT Death repeats his o’erancient strategem. Those closest confederates: girls and demons. The Twain grown complacent.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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