LADY LILITH
"I became the spendthrift of my own genius, and to waste an eternal youth gave me a curious joy. Tired of being on the heights, I deliberately went to the depths in the search for new sensation ... I grew careless of the lives of others. I took pleasure where it pleased me, and passed on. I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character...."
Oscar Wilde: De Profundis.
LADY LILITH
CHAPTER ONE THE DEATH OF THE PHOENIX
"Conceive of your life as an unfinished biography, and try to discover the next chapter and the end."
J. A. Spender: "The Comments of Bagshot."