... LaLaurie (Delphine LaLaurie) The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? ---Edgar Allan Poe The Canon This is another one of those torture posts, sorry... And this one is all the more horrible because it isn't some religious executioner trying to exact confessions in an effort to get their victim to recant and thereby "save" their soul (which seemed to justify the destruction of their physical body in the eyes of said executioner--at least their soul was saved, he might muse), no this one is strictly torture for torture's sake. Madame Delphine LaLaurie Not to say that some of those religious executioners weren't also enjoying some torture for torture's sake, they just had the backing of their church, their government, and--in their deluded minds--their God. No, this story is almost too sick and twisted to be included in my trail throu...