-Part One-  -In the Snow/My Veiled Venus-   -Enter gothicsurrealism-    She came veiled into the twilight of my life.  That soft moonglow my fading heartbeat,  fraught with dread to stay afloat on a blackening horizon.   Dreams burned like my Venus...

French for "Ice"   August 16, 1788              Mon Cher Donatien         "Women fascinate me more than men," you began. "Because their bodies are more sensitive, more sensual." I heard the familiar clink in glass...