The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

(Story of the Eye) (under pseudonym of Lord Auch)
L'Anus solaire 1931. Trans. 1851) a tax collector and Antoinette-Aglaë Tournarde (b.

Eroticism sovereignty and transgression are at the core of his writings.