Angela Carter: Black Venus [1996] paperback PSYCH More or less 150 years

More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad

But there was an infinitesimal chance that the aliens would find rebooting a human irresistible

the old beliefs bring pleasure and wisdom

include The Age of Reason

Angela Carter: Black Venus [1996] paperback PSYCH More or less 150 yearsExtraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds Edgar Allen Poe, with his face of a actor, demonstrating in every thought and deed how right his