{"product_id":"2940045545501","title":"Room 101: The Obscene is the Root of Pleasure -","description":"\u003cp\u003eNames have been changed in order to maintain anonymity, but the characters and events of this story are real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing a fantasy to life, or not, is linked to the same weakness which marks a religious man.\u003cbr\u003e«The need to give shape and tangibility in order to believe»\u003cbr\u003eAt times we are free from this weakness and we are able to live our lives in a completely realistic way, just as we want to and the limits of reality become unstable and depend on the power of our minds.\u003cbr\u003eDecisive, ruthless, unrelenting and we feel the tremble of pleasure as physicality plays an equal part.\u003cbr\u003eJacqueline\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNature, imagination and violence as instruments of freedom against which reason imposes constraints and, in its way, mutilates «demanding rules and order»\u003cbr\u003eThe only ethic which survives the death of reason can be nothing but the ethic of pleasure.\u003cbr\u003eRaflesia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only ethic which survives reason that is driven to its extreme consequences is pleasure itself.\u003cbr\u003eEnea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive me your hand, hold on tight and don’t let go in this journey which drifts backwards.\u003cbr\u003eWe will journey through sensations and illusions, moments when life resembles fireworks and you feel as if you were in paradise while sinking into hell.\u003cbr\u003eCome closer then and put your lips on mine, close your eyes. Let my breath enter your lungs so that it will be my oxygen only that keeps you alive and slowly you will feel lost as if I had breathed a poison into you. No going back.\u003cbr\u003eBoth a drug and an illusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe waiting\u003cbr\u003eOn the patio of the small hotel surrounded by trees, at the edge of the woods I waited for her.\u003cbr\u003eShe should have been there at nine o’clock but she was late.\u003cbr\u003eIn my mind I went over everything during the previous month and a half that had led us up to that place.\u003cbr\u003eMessages, e-mails and our long encounters on the web which lasted entire nights at times’ had arrived the night before after a seven-hour journey, stopping only for petrol and after leaving the motorway I had driven up to high altitudes and then down again along hairpin turns among almost virgin landscapes of luxuriant green.\u003cbr\u003eMephisto was the name of the hotel I had booked.\u003cbr\u003eThat name recalled some thin predestined a sort of premonition in my choice which was forced since I hadn’t found anything else nearby. Mephisto, Mephistopheles, almost a sign of fate.\u003cbr\u003eFaust and the devil, but which of us was Mephistopheles and who Faust?\u003cbr\u003eOr were we both demons? Probably!\u003cbr\u003eThe soul and the body, sold.\u003cbr\u003eI felt, I knew, that I had arrived there like Faust to sell my soul and body… but to whom? And in exchange for what?\u003cbr\u003eBut I was sure and fully aware that I had been the one who had awakened the devil which slumbered inside her, though I didn’t know how much she was in the grip of the new desires which attracted her towards our encounter.\u003cbr\u003eI felt excited, but at the same time afraid of what could happen now that we were about to enter the eye of the storm from which escape would have been impossible for us.\u003cbr\u003eEverything had been planned and we both knew that what we wanted wasn’t just a game.\u003cbr\u003eDuring the time before that encounter I had shown a perverse seed inside her which had sprouted rapidly in that fertile soil of hers, growing luxuriant and strong like a giant weed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Enea Tonon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122178801904,"sku":"2940045545501","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045545501_p0.jpg?v=1763689044","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045545501","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}