Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allegories. Everywhere one looks, there flicker the shadows of primordial struggles; the perpetual tension between the dark and the light; the wrestling match between Christ and Satan; and finally, the complex allegories of sex: sex in all its unimaginable innocence, or sex reeking with the full perfume of the swamp. And all these urgencies are seen or sensed through a hot wash of blood which, deny it though we will, fascinates us nearly to the point of shame...
Full perfume of the swamp, indeed. Whether a scholar who writes in so deep a shade of purple can even comprehend shame is uncertain. Yet Wolfs conclusion has some merit. Stoker, who was secretary to the actor Sir Henry Irving, shrewdly swotted Transylvanian geography and vampire lore at the British Museum reading room. His gleanings provided a European psychohistory before the term was coined, covering half-remembered terrors with gothic cobwebs. Stoker wrote several other romances of no particular power, but in Dracula he managed to create a classic, forever stalking his readers when their moral and rational defenses...
...Guardi is a fantastical landscape of writhing trees and magical boats. Boucher? Rather than playful nymphs and naked amoureuses, there are a phantasmagoric cottage and tower that the brothers Grimm might have imagined. And Ruisdael, that painter of flickering Dutch light, is represented by a picture of a dark swamp-a savage place that could well be haunted by some woman wailing for her demon lover...
...looked to be about twice her size. Lynn is obviously younger than the rest of the group, whose average age is 23--when Lynn saw Parker's son George reading a comic book called The Inkumans, she grabbed it and asked with keen interest, "Oh, have you read Swamp Things?"--but no one seems to notice the age gap too much, and today her mood was obviously in keeping with that of the team, Soon everyone was squirting everyone else...
Matadi, Zaire Republic--It was a six-hour trip up the Congo River. The first half was delta swamp with dense jungle and occasional mudflats where huge flocks of birds congregated. The second half was hills, cliifs, ravines, small huts wherever there was greenery, and lone fishermen paddling along the backwaters...