"The suitors' bodies made a carpet of flesh, blood, gore, and dust. Outside the palace hall, in the court yard, the twelve unfaithful serving maids swung in the wind, hanged. Everything else was still, save for the jaws of the dogs fighting over Melanthius's testicles and penis (373)."
I really loved Cadmus and Harmony. I know I will read it again, it has it all. Beauty, celebration, love, betrayal, murder, suicide, blood and guts--the list goes on and on. I love horror movies especially the really gory slasher flicks. Most slasher movies, if not all of them, are based on the crimes of serial killers and, more often than not, the crimes of Ed Gein. When Gein's Wisconsin farm house of horrors was discovered authorities found, among other things, masks made from human skin, bowls made from human skulls, and a belt made of nipples. Ed Gein had a darkness that the religious age has many explanations for, but in mythology this darkness simply exists. It is not the result of demons or some great evil. It is a part of humans, just another tale to be told. The violence and gore of Calasso is very casual because it is merely a fact. It wasn't caused by evil spirits or demons spawned from uncontrollable woman. It is the shadow, our shadow.
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