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One night, after they had made love, Pelletier got up naked and went looking among his books for a novel by Archimboldi. After hesitating for a moment he decided on The Leather Mask, thinking that with some luck Vanessa might read it as a horror novel, might be attracted by the sinister side of the book.

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He had come into contact with Archimboldi’s work, as far as he could recall, at the age of twenty, when he read The Endless Rose, The Leather Mask, and Rivers of Europe in German, books he borrowed from a library in Santiago. The library had only those three and Bifurcaria Bifurcata, but this last he had begun and couldn’t finish.

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