Cyan's long sapphire hair ran down over her naked azure body. Her delicate blue hands moved gently between the branches of the low shrubs, as if she were searching for something.

I'm very interested in the Decadent movements in France and England, and in their aesthetic theories. . . . I've always hoped that a more relaxed society of the future would be able to recover some of [their] doctrines . . . the notion of art for art's sake, the enthusiasm for alternative lifestyle fantasies, and so on.