The Mask, Section I
Boris demonstrates the petrifying fluid on a lily and a goldfish — establishing the central conceit.
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From The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
The story of the sculptor Boris Yvain, whose chemical solution turns living flesh to marble, is a Pre-Raphaelite love triangle inflected by the curse of the Yellow Play.
The Mask, climax
Genevieve falls into the marble bath; Boris's suicide; the narrator Alec's reading of the King in Yellow at the bedside.
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