“She rises when the sun sets and goes immediately to her table where she plays her game of patience until she grows hungry, until she becomes ravenous.
She is so beautiful she is unnatural; her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity, for none of her features exhibit any of those touching imperfections that reconcile us to the imperfection of the human condition.
Her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soullessness.”
— Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love
She is so beautiful she is unnatural; her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity, for none of her features exhibit any of those touching imperfections that reconcile us to the imperfection of the human condition.
Her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soullessness.”
— Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love