Anyone want to talk about House of Mystery #1?
Specifically "The Hollows" -- Hungry Sally's 4-page Story-Within-The-Story.
I guess people usually write blog posts giving a review or telling people their opinions. I don't know what my opinion is, though, so I am asking for suggestions:
Grotesquely and offensively obscene?
Grotesquely fascinating?
Social commentary?
Shock horror?
A feminist parable satirizing women's willful blindness and acceptance of their second-class status in marriage?
An anti-feminist rant abusing women for no apparent purpose?
Something else? I'm open to suggestions that I completely missed the point by any well meaning entomologists in the audience . . .
I guess people usually write blog posts giving a review or telling people their opinions. I don't know what my opinion is, though, so I am asking for suggestions:
Grotesquely and offensively obscene?
Grotesquely fascinating?
Social commentary?
Shock horror?
A feminist parable satirizing women's willful blindness and acceptance of their second-class status in marriage?
An anti-feminist rant abusing women for no apparent purpose?
Something else? I'm open to suggestions that I completely missed the point by any well meaning entomologists in the audience . . .
posted by Ragtime at 10:51 AM
4 Comments:
i just think it was disturbing and gross. i didnt see a parable but i could barely read it once. the visuals were very shocking.
"Grotesquely fascinating?"
This at least.
"A feminist parable satirizing women's willful blindness and acceptance of their second-class status in marriage?"
Like most good works of this genre, it can be a parable if you want it to be.
I took the message more generically:
if you live too much for and through others, you remain a hollow person incapable of fulfillment.
Thanks for the insights, Stephen and Scipio.
Still not sure what to think about it, but I'll be buying #2, so I guess they did their job.
i think scipio has the right idea
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