“Double Twine” is a novel by Jean Cocteau, a Renaissance-gifted man who became a symbol of the modern avant-garde for many years."...Cocteau is good because beauty and impeccable style are always in the foreground, and then everything else I have never seen anywhere (we are talking about prose, not painting) such attention to beauty on such an everyday level. Even love seems in Cocteau to be a poor relative of his aesthetic ups and artistic generalizations. Everything is subordinated to a strict hierarchy of impeccable style, everything is easily discernible. beauty vertical...”