Antonin ARTAUD (1896-1948). L.A.S., Ville-Evrard December 26, 1940, to André Lhote; 2pages in-4. Pathetic letter about Satan's attacks against him. "You saw as I did Satan this morning indulging in one of those erotic operations by which he joins his own essence and remakes evil every time, and this is only one of the means by which the absolute spirit of evil holds us all prisoner". He has long been waiting for friends who have been unable to break through the barriers erected by Evil. This morning, "the infection [...] was only a screen and a caricature. The real Evil is so much more hidden, and you also know how it holds me and by what obscene and criminal means. And that I live here in agonizing agony that never ends, and that the waves of evil that hook my head and compress my sex and belly twist me at the same time with a hatred that Satan constantly directs towards what I hold dearest, making me live in a state of blasphemy and sin that is the mouth of Evil confused with my mouth. This dreadful crucifixion must come to an end"...