Raymond Roussel
Two Episodes FROM the Drafts of Locus Solus

From Tether 4, pages 44–53

At that moment there advanced towards us a woman who looked like a well-built rustic. She carried in front of her, in both hands, a sort of rack painted pink, on which was stretched a body which was the same bright pink, and which greatly intrigued us, for it seemed half human and half vegetal.