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Set in the near future, in a Paris devastated by revolution and disease, ''Empire of the Senseless'' is narrated by two terrorists and occasional lovers, Thivai, a pirate, and Abhor, part robot, part human. Together and apart, the two undertake an odyssey of carnage, a holocaust of the erotic. “An elegy for the world of our fathers,” as Kathy Acker calls it, where the terrorists and the wretched of the earth are in command, marching down a road charted by Genet to a ''Marseillaise'' composed by Sade.

(Source: Grove Atlantic catalog copy)