MDMD(11): Her Plainly Visible Phantom

[Dave Monroe]

Also ...

"At times he believes he has almost seen black Fumes
welling from the Surface of her Apparition, heard her
Voice thickening to the timbres of the Beasts..."
(M&D, Ch. 16, p. 172)
 
"She bares her Teeth, and pales ..." (M&D, Ch. 16, p.
172)

"Her eyes have broken into white, and grown pointed
at the outer ends, her ears are back like a cat's."
(M&D, Ch. 15, p. 164)
 
Again from Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2001), Ch. 1, "Grotto, an
Opening," pp. 1-23 ...

"The grotesque is a mode that is first and foremost
about crossing into a different and transformative
order of reality, and second about the unexpected
recombinations of events, objects, species we
encounter once we are inside.  And for centuries it
has been a secular society's only path back to the
transcendent.  We crawl into the hole--the grotto, the
Symmes Hole, the black hole of the cosmos, the hole in
our own heads--in the unspoken and often unconscious
hope of undergoing deep change.  The words used in the
English language to describe this
alteration--metamorphosis from the Greek,
transformation from the Latin--describe this same
experience.
   "It was [Giordano] Bruno who asserted that
metamorphosis into an animal during meditation was the
only way to transcend ..." (p. 22)

Blurbs from Thomas Moore (Care of the Soul), Neil
Gaiman (The Sandman), Harold Bloom (...) and Terry
Castle (The Female Thermometer, The Apparitional
Lesbian) on the back.  If I had one book to recommend
here ...

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