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Against The Grain, or Against Nature Chapter 13
In which the oppressive heat suffocates Des Esseintes, tormenting his frail body and unsettling his senses as he wrestles with a profound malady and the vexations of physical decline. Amidst his fevered reveries beneath the shadow of a garden tree, he contemplates with sombre detachment the futility of human existence, the harshness of social mores, and the poignant absurdities of desire and survival.
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