Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?

S. (The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect albeit common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work. Berthe Courrière was his sole heir inheriting a substantial body of unpubliRemy de Gourmontd work which Remy de Gourmont sent to his brother Jean de Gourmont and dying within the year.

). (The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect albeit common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work. Remy de Gourmont (April 4 1858 – September 27 1915) was a French Symbolist poet novelist and influential critic.