The Man Who Loved Plants

The Man Who Loved Plants is a story where love is pure horror. Set in the hidden world of a botanical garden, the protagonist keeps out of sight while secretly watching the life of the garden's director. It is an obsession leading to a collision of spirits unlike any other.

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The train station was so large as to contain its own weather — a weather of high marble walls that held the same chill in winter and in summer  — the weather of a concrete vault so massive as to have become the sky, beneath whose distance, dim-lit curve a fog seemed to gather.  Above all, it was the weather of echoes — all sounds hollowed and shattered so that words got lost and yet continued sounding long after those who spoke them had taken their trains and gone.