SOURCE: "Sexual and sporting feats: Messaline and Le Surmâle," in Alfred Jarry: A Critical and Biographical Study, St. Martin's Press, 1984, pp. 227-61.
In the following excerpt, Beaumont studies themes in Messaline, especially that of sexuality.
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