tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843157625045099797.post3639376094056434139..comments2024-03-27T23:56:25.286-07:00Comments on Cabinet of Wonders: Evil, IncarnateHeather McDougalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09683209580852572301noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843157625045099797.post-69917771270187110152008-10-04T23:27:00.000-07:002008-10-04T23:27:00.000-07:00Heather, thank you for your brilliant insight.Heather, thank you for your brilliant insight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843157625045099797.post-3602368861468504462008-09-25T11:35:00.000-07:002008-09-25T11:35:00.000-07:00Perhaps the idea of evil as physically monstrous a...Perhaps the idea of evil as physically monstrous also ties in with the Apollonian ideal that harmony rises superior to chaos, and the never-ending human longing for some sort of immortal perfection.<BR/><BR/>The fate of the villains in the third book of His Dark Materials trilogy was confused, and to some extent rather cursorily dealt with - this may have been due in part to the divided/ambivalent natures which you suggest, or to some extent to Pullman's being trapped by his plot (I thought the first wo books were brilliant).ArtSparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875996639432864367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843157625045099797.post-47406372597605451692008-09-23T09:25:00.000-07:002008-09-23T09:25:00.000-07:00Thanks so much for posting this. It definitely hi...Thanks so much for posting this. It definitely hit a soft spot with me since I've been struggling with chronic illness (much of it gastrointestinal) for 13 years, and was just recently "blamed" for my condition by someone I had considered a true friend. She decided to revert back to the long lost days of shunning the sick!<BR/><BR/>Illness as metaphor is a fascinating topic, along how we translate, portray and personify it.<BR/><BR/>Get well soon!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843157625045099797.post-35268752213437785662008-09-21T22:52:00.000-07:002008-09-21T22:52:00.000-07:00Get better soon and do not worry: we are not think...Get better soon and do not worry: we are not thinking you a monster.spacedlawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12462723005560128474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843157625045099797.post-88626134411553687762008-09-20T14:52:00.000-07:002008-09-20T14:52:00.000-07:00A whole other branch of the physique/psyche cross ...A whole other branch of the physique/psyche cross is the ethnic villain. The ultra-stereotype is depicted with black hair and a hooked nose. Guess who? (Hint: Hitler didn't like this group.) And even in my lifetime, cancer has emerged from being a shameful secret. No one boasted of being a "cancer survivor" 40 years ago! <BR/><BR/>Anyway, I hope you get better. Of course I had to look at the wiki link. Sounds hideous. But you're fabulous! even if your guts are trying to tell you otherwise.Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03035351428671762555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843157625045099797.post-46919563510680136412008-09-20T03:54:00.000-07:002008-09-20T03:54:00.000-07:00I've been thinking about our fascination with seri...I've been thinking about our fascination with serial killers recently - it meshes oddly with the current trend in antiheros - the serial killer has been the villain for so long that now we have a TV show (Dexter) where that gets turned on it's head.<BR/><BR/>I'm still not sure what the serial killer fixation says about our society.<BR/><BR/>Great choice with Baron Harkonnen by the way - I've just been re-reading Dune, and it's really struck me how much he's an example of the physical manifestation of evil. He's fat, and a pederast. And of course David Lynch had to make him even more repulsive still... (shudders at pustule "treatment" scene)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843157625045099797.post-3488816164849939802008-09-19T22:25:00.000-07:002008-09-19T22:25:00.000-07:00You know, that's true. I actually made a consciou...You know, that's true. I actually made a conscious choice not to get into the villains who are slick and beautiful; it was a whole other can of worms. Maybe some other time...Heather McDougalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09683209580852572301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843157625045099797.post-44113446906958117302008-09-19T20:28:00.000-07:002008-09-19T20:28:00.000-07:00D: Eww. I hope you get better soon. I got Montez...D: Eww. I hope you get better soon. I got Montezuma's revenge when in Mexico City (from eating at a Burger King in the Zona Rosa of all places). It was not fun.<BR/><BR/>I do remember when I was a child, I could always seem to tell the villains because they were depicted as ugly. In the movie <I>The Goonies</I>, Sloth was a badly deformed giant of a man and (much like Quasimodo) turns out to be a hero. I do notice that a lot of shows are making the wrong-doers more attractive, and using that to actually mislead the audience as to whodunit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com