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Venus has Decomposed Now
By Fred Beare
© 2017 By Fred Beare
NOV/10/17
The Death Mask of Civilization has been donned before...
“Now Nana was left alone, lying face upwards in the light of the candle, a pile of blood and pus dumped on a pillow, a shovelful of rotten flesh ready for the bone-yard, her whole face covered in festering sores, one touching the other, all puckered and subsiding into a shapeless, slushy grey pulp, already looking like a compost heap. Her features were no longer distinguishable, her left eye entirely submerged in discharging ulcers, the other one a sunken, fly-blown hole. A thick yellowish fluid was still oozing from her nose. Starting from the left cheek, a reddish crust has overrun the mouth, pulling it into a ghastly grin. And on this horrible and grotesque death-mask, her hair, her lovely hair, still flamed like a glorious golden stream of sunlight.
Venus was decomposing; the germs which she had picked up from the carrion people allowed to moulder in the gutter, the ferment which had infected a whole society, seemed to have come to the surface of her face and rotted it.”
Émile Zola, “Nana” (1880)
..and is being donned again.
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