„Ancient Erotic“ initiates a dialogue between two works with corresponding aesthetic principles.

Matthew Gregory’s prose-poem, „The Lobster“, is a narrative excerpt from the life of the French poet Gerard de Nerval, remembered for his fascination with and empathy for the lobster; keeping one specimen as a kind of otherwordly alternative ‚pet’ to the toy-poodles and chows of 19th century Paris.

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