“The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse.” WomanRobotAndroidCorpseSimulacra Book:The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France Source: The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France