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Against The Grain, or Against Nature Chapter 7
In which Des Esseintes finds himself besieged by a flood of melancholy memories and unsettling spiritual doubts, as his austere solitude and vivid recollections of Jesuit education awaken a latent turmoil between scepticism and a faint stir of faith. Struggling with his faltering health and intellectual exhaustion, he resolves to withdraw temporarily from mental exertion by immersing himself instead in the tangible beauty of exotic flowers to soothe his restless mind.
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