Charles Baudelaire's Second Volume of "Les Fleurs du mal"

Effects
To counter the themes of sex and death, the second volume went far left. Happy and full of hope it was considered a sellout and all but Baudelaire's personal copy was destroyed. Absorbing the negative feelings from the critics, readers and the author himself, it decays plant life around it when buried. Only decays inside a 5 foot radius, but can use those caught within to spread it further i.e. through the roots of a nearby tree or flower pollen.