Can we love beauty? Not to desire, to want to possess ... but love, pure love, ethereal, religious, absolute. Push the issue to the extreme: Is it lawful to love the most sublime beauty when one is the most repulsive ugliness? Epiphanes love Ethel. The ugliness of révulsante Epiphanes is the most abject filth that the seraphic beauty of Ethel is the most divine grace. The love of Epiphanes against Ethel is it possible? "There is no impossible love 'replied Amelie Nothomb.