Status Updates From The Torture Garden

Holy shit

It seems to this book is often abridged to the section titled “The Garden.” My version includes a dialogue on whether the desire to murder is the driving force behind mankind and background on the protagonist, and runs 250 pages.

Entre o cansaço, a filosofia da linguagem e a distinção entre intenção e motivos, somados à dissertação, tem sido difícil dar andamento a este outro estudo. Mas os livros já se começam a acumular

O último reduto é o chá preto desta manhã e tabaco cubano

"Was she not born of my debauchery and fever? Is she not one of those impossible visions to which nightmares give birth? One of those criminal temptations such as lust stirs in the imagination of those invalids called assassins and murderers? Might she not be nothing more than my soul, escaped from me despite myself and materialized in the form of sin? No... for I can touch her."

"There are some who assert they are perverse! Flowers perverse! In fact, they no longer know what to write. Have you ever heard such monstrous nonsense, milady? Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!"

"Then, with an air of tranquil satisfaction: “Yesterday, it was very strange. I made a woman out of a man. He! he! And it was such a good job you couldn't tell the difference, and I myself was fooled looking at him."

When you get your gender reassignment surgery in the Torture Garden

I'm finishing this book today...