IN THE MEADOWS, FLOWERS THAT BLOOM THE TINT OF
GOLD, SILVER AND HONEY. FLOURISHING IS THEIR BEAUTY!
O PITIFUL THING! O WEEPING CHILD OF WEEDS! ONE FLOWER
THAT BLOOMED BE BLACK LIKE CHARCOAL!!
Literature is irrelevant, she can’t be sustained by feelings that come from ink and paper. If only you could truly feel it in your flesh, against the skin, all the way to the raw bone! Only one piece of human lliterature has done such, just one. But it was the circumstances what made it possible, feelings from the past that cannot be repeated, shouldn’t be repeated. But still she cannot stop a strange sentiment poking holes at her, when her eyes recognize the book, that one book...
”Ah--I never knew how to even say that, ‘fleurs du mal’...” Her voice so flat, but the thick accent she pronounces the foreign words with, that has something almost lively. On her lips, an amused smile, on her eyes a clouded sense of melancholy. “...it just sounds stupid. ”