on bacchanalian ritual (this character apparently does not consider humans to be animals)

[mortigi_tempo]

"Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves? Euripides speaks of the Maenads: head thrown back, throat to the

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[tipped_velvet]

OMG I read this book like...3 years ago. I loved it. It got recommended to me by the bookseller at South Station as I was about to board a 22 hour train to Ann Arbor Michigan.

[mortigi_tempo]

i found it in the living room, my stepmother was reading it. at first i didn't think i would like it much but as soon as i got to the part quoted above, i too was all "OMG!!" and devoured the rest!

how are you, lady? back in salem, right? i'm going to SF at the end of this month for the edwardian ball, woot.

[byname]

Love it :)

[hereticfairie]

truly that beauty is terrible, sometimes more terrible then imaginable. i learned that the hard way.