ABSTRACT
If the search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness, then what fate befalls those whose professional quest leads them into unearthing the meaning of sadness, or despair, or fear, or even … perversity? Could the outcome for those who seek the darker truths be an enlightened understanding? Could a close acquaintance with perversion bring a closer insight into decency? Here beginneth my prelude to the work of Estela Welldon, whose most remarkable accomplishment would seem to be the understanding of oppositional states of mind and their paradoxical struggles.
