Grotesque


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Wise Blood
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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
In the Miso Soup
Crash
The Trial
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Charles Baudelaire
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosp ...more
Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals

Natsuo Kirino
In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.
Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque

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