Detail, Portrait of Dorian Gray, by Ivan Albright

Detail from Portrait of Dorian Gray by Ivan Albright
Even the cat is debauched, with pierced ears, lined and reddened eyes that speak of horrors seen, now unforgettable, while the syphilitic chancres on the cat’s lips hint at forbidden, bestial pleasures and the cutaneous horn on the cat’s skull trumpets the inevitable end of all sinners.

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