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Against The Grain, or Against Nature Chapter 5
In which Des Esseintes receives the long-anticipated delivery of a tortoise, transformed into a dazzling objet d’art encrusted with carefully chosen rare stones, evoking intricate pleasures of colour and light. As evening falls, surrounded by the snow and quietude of his retreat, he indulges in his unique mouth organ of liquors, which stirs within him a vivid and painful recollection of a past ordeal with a merciless dentist.
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