Sebastien Roch (Dedalus European Classics) by Octave Mirbeau

Author:Octave Mirbeau
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781873982433
Publisher: Dedalus
Published: 2013-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

Gradually, Sébastien became engulfed by an enervating, sensual atmosphere in which, beneath the veil of divine love that masked all the carnal excitement, physical arousal and base depravity that rise from virgin sex organs to an already tainted mind, day by day, hour by hour, without him even realising or suspecting it, he was losing his moral equilibrium, his spiritual health, his instinctive honesty. He did not resist, he could not resist the corruption of his little soul, which had been skilfully saturated in poetry, chloroformed by ideas, overcome by the corrosive, emasculating morphine of ungraspable desires. For this secret, continual, invasive work, Father de Kern enlisted the aid of the sun, the mist, the sea, the languid evenings, the starry nights, the whole of nature, which submitted like an old whore to the monstrous concupiscence of one man. Neither nature nor priest addressed themselves directly to the child’s lower organs, nor did they attempt to excite the vulgar appetites which lie deep in the purest of hearts. It was through his finest and most noble qualities, through the generosity of his intelligence, by gaining the confidence of his mind that they instilled in him, drop by drop, the mortal poison. They chose their moment well for the rape of a delicate, passionate, excessively sensitive soul surrounded by tempting traps, attacked at the very roots of his intellectual life. Those obsessive conversations, those tormenting, corrupting dreams, provoked in Sébastien troubling, physical symptoms of an abnormal nature, like the symptoms of a serious illness. A surge of hot blood swelled and burned in his veins; his distended muscles stimulated his tormented flesh; he felt dizzy and had blackouts, nocturnal emissions, the erotic excretions by which, in precocious temperaments, the first upheavals of puberty announce themselves.

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