menstrous feminine

To "write in Gothic" was not only to find new subjects, themes, and literary models, a change revolutionary in itself, and one Wordsworth, for instance, was clearly conscious of effecting. It was also to subvert and reshape, indeed rebuild "that dome in air," to "reorder" the garden of Kubla Khan's "decree." The poem describes a cyclical re-formation of the Law of the Father: the garden expresses Kubla's "decree" (in a kind of ecriture feminine), which the poet, hearing it described in the song of the Abyssinian Maid, then translates into a hysterically embodied meaning (he becomes his message). in Art of darkness: Poetics of gothic

“Go back to your history, this stack of lies that tries to link event to event with cause and effect, this preposterous faith that postulates that one thing follows from another. I tell you, it’s not so. But it is very Roman of you to think so". Anne Rice, Pandora

kad sam bila mala, bilo je trenutaka kad sam se u majčinoj blizini osjećala veoma voljeno: njeni prsti koji mi glade kosu, njen parfem, slatkast i lahorast, zlatne narukvice joj zveckaju na bledim, koščatim šakama, njena šatirana kosa, njen ruž, dah opor od duvana i kiselkast od pića. moja godina odmora i opuštanja