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after his books began to sell millions of copies,

translated into over 67 languages. On one

occasion Ellis said she could not understand this

work and that Franz was so fascinated by the

work and that he would spend hours in "...her

area of the living room..." because of it...

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The Master Bedroom

"Ir-resist-ab-le! I understand! Good God, how

dare you love me? What do you mean, how dare I

love you?"

These are the words handwritten and sat

on the front of the door of the master bedroom,

and is a quote from the French writer Fernand de

Beaumont's novel, Chocolat lips - which was a

book saturated in scandal when it was published

in 1986: as it was a book fully pioneering in

Avant-Garde Literature with many riffs and

aggrandisement's of a Dada nature and was a

book that provoked and entertained in equal

measure, but soon became a forgotten classic,

never bested as Fernand's next and final novel, A

Jamais Vu of Love, Loyalty & Ice cream which

was deemed vulgar, and even placed on the Index

Librorum Prohibitorum, subsequently died on

the day of its publishing anecdotally having a

heart attack whilst licking a lolly, with some

people claiming that he giggled on his deathbed

(Respecting The Life of a Jester, Fernand de

Beaumont, University of Cambridge). Why Franz

would choose such an eccentric quote to place in

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