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Against The Grain, or Against Nature Chapter 14 Part 2
In which Des Esseintes contemplates the failings of contemporary literature, finding in Baudelaire and Poe a rare fusion of style and substance that reflects his own intricate sensibilities and morbid fascinations. Amidst his favourite delicate volumes and prose poems, he perceives the decay of the French language, lamenting a cultural decline that mingles youthful brilliance with an inevitable, corroding senescence.
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