2004-12-21
... ? Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | John Mullan on literature's best partiesYet they are drawn irresistibly toward it, because the excitement is so intense and the pleasure is so unbridled and the gowns and the food and the drink and the flesh are so sumptuous - and that is all they have... and what else could the Red Death be but some sort of final stimulation, the ne plus ultra ?
