It is interesting that the artificial life-style, which the character is presumed to be cultivating is paralleled by an art-style where the perverse is substitute for the natural…..In this ironical chronicle of decomposition, he masters the syntax of odours, sensations and colours as he focuses paradoxically upon “the most natural symbol of perversity: the flower”. In his attraction to flora, the art-like flora, the art-like specimens of the natural world, he illustrates most literally the perversity of his programme. His first step, however, is to defy the natural flower by substituting for it the challenges of an artificial one; seemingly satisfying his ‘penchant naturel vers l’artifice. But that perverse inclination toward the artificial leads to a further act of defiance and deviation. He arrives at the ultimate act of inversion : “After the artificial ( factice) flowers mimicking the genuine flowers, he wanted natural flowers imitating false flowers.