
Days of 1896
He was utterly disgraced. One of his erotic inclinations,
literally forbidden and condemned
(nonetheless inbred), was the reason:
Society was quite puritanical.
Bit by bit, he lost what little money he had.
Then he lost his position and his reputation.
He was close to thirty years old without ever having worked
as long as a year at least at a job we know of.
Sometimes he earned his expenses from
Interceding in deals that were considered shameful.
He ended up being the type of person who, if you were seen
with him often, it was possible that you could be seriously discredited.
But this is not the whole story. It wouldn’t be right.
Above all, his beauty needs to be mentioned.
There is another point of view, and if he is seen from that angle
he appears likable; he seems simple and pure
young man of love who, without any thought
placed above his honour and his reputation
the sensual delight of his innocent flesh.
And his reputation? But society,
prudish and stupid, made comparisons.







