Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, the Count pretended to be the masked man. He "pressed Veronica to him with that enveloping and symmetrical suavity that he seemed to have inherited from the trimmed foliage of old French parks." She and the Count were "united in a single tremulousness." Then they got married...
Veronica loved the Count "with the harmonious turbulence of all her viscera." But the Count was still in love with Solange (he had left her in France). He had only "a sentimental veneration for [Veronica's] vacant, meningitic stare," though he liked to surprise her "by refined flashes of turpitude." Soon, "life became like a bath in a tepid lake." "If one day I decided to kill myself," mused the Count. "I should choose the moment immediately after the radio had announced the despairing and inexorable phrase, 'Bulova Watch Time...
Convulsions and Euphoria. They planned to build a house in California, ringed by "a paradise of palms shuddering with fornicating birds." The Count studied demonology and tried to make love to Solange by physical telepathy and black magic...
...aviator came to visit them. "Veronica!" he cried. "The cross [the Count] is wearing is the one you gave me!" It was the masked man. Veronica divorced the Count...
When World War II ended, the Count sped back to France. But his demoniacal visitations had given Solange "convulsions that racked her . . . with euphoric climaxes." "He is coming!" she cried. "Wait just one last moment before nailing me down!" Meanwhile the Count's heart "contracted at the sight of the young cork [trees] that had grown during his absence." Though Solange had died, the Count knew that the pulse of France was beating as strongly as ever-"the truffles truffled . . . the snail slavered, the manure manured, the cemetery rotted, the preserves preserved, the rabbit's blood dripped...