notas

(...) she became, in some manner, the symbolic Deity of indestructible Luxury, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the cursed Beauty... the monstrous, indifferent insensible, Beast, who, like Helen of Troy, poisons all that approach her, all that see her and all that touch her.

Fin de Siecle Art and Society in an Age of Uncertainty.

Shearer West

pg.74