5/19/2023 0 Comments Andrew compton exquisite corpse![]() ![]() ![]() This is alleviated, or rather this one has the impact of its shocks diminished, occluded, by the artistry of the author, and even the most ghoulish scenes have a sort of glamour surrounding them, as if its all unreal, or as if you can't really take it in. I've said it before the subject matter is one that is chosen by the author and if you can't stomach it then you better get off the bus. To put it simply think of the most depraved shit a human being can do to another of its kind and it's likely in here. sometimes even all of those at the same time. I have never read any single book that gave such lovingly graphic descriptions of such a wild variety of upsetting things: Necrophilia, murder, torture, cannibalism, rape. But is there still room for love in the dying man's heart, and is he still willing to become a part of humanity to save a doomed ex-lover? And on the radio, and in the throes of aids and the corrosive knowledge of impending death, Lush Rimbaud talks on and on about hate and despair. ![]()
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