Thirst For Love

Eikoh Hosoe

Phoebe Nesgos

Andrea Fourchy

Adam Martin

E'wao Kagoshima

Marie Angeletti

"Love...Not again! No, not again," he said to himself.

This counter-word, love, at first glance so convenient, had brought an excess of meanings into the life he had been living with so little reflection. He could not think of it as representing anything more than a completely unnecessary concept.

He had found no room in his life fitted out for this word as a daily necessity, as something for which he would at times place his life in the balance. It was difficult for him to even imagine it. And the stupidity that leads some owners of such a room to burn the whole house down in order to rid themselves of it was to him utterly ridiculous.

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Extended Fatigue, endless fatigue, tremendous fatigue far more immeasure than the crime she had just committed, fulfilling fatigue derived from countless pains accumulated in the process of performing some efficacious act -- surely no one could acquire innocent sleep like this without having paid for it with fatigue like that?