Prometheus Ill-Bound

"Poorly chained, indeed, since here he is in Paris in 1899, arriving from the Caucasus. And then, poorly chained, because this lover of men no longer needs chains - he has fallen in love with his bird; he feeds it, hoping that this plucked vulture resembling a conscience will become the beautiful eagle of progress, of the ideal, of soaring flight. Under this regimen, Prometheus wastes away. He would even die if, following a lecture he gave on the theme "To each his own eagle," his friend Damocles had not died from believing in it too much. At the fresh grave, Prometheus improvises a talk, very different from the first, in which he praises the destiny of Moelibée, the happy man who goes, naked, towards a pastoral happiness. After the funeral, he invites his friends to eat with him the very fat eagle, of which he has only kept the feathers."

LIMITED EDITION of 765 numbered copies on Lafuma-Navarre white vellum paper. This is one of those numbered copies.