t time I visited Angela Carter, a feea, in spite of being in considerable pain. S brig, s, lips satirically pursed, and got doo teatime business of giving and receiving test dirt: se.
t is er Id come to tions approved, selepo say, quot;ell. Youre going to be seeing a lot more of me from no; -- and at time courteous enougo overcome mortal suffering for tility of a formal afternoon tea.
Deat sion. Saken out an quot;immensequot; life insurance policy sly before truck. t of ter receiving so fes, to a fortune to quot;; (ed ly, and inspired a great gloating black-comedy aria at to laugh.
Sructions o read Marvells poem On a Drop of Deer I kneologically irreligious, merrily godless of sed Marvells meditation on tal soul -- quot;t Drop, t Ray / Of tain of Eternal Dayquot; -- spoken over , surrealist joke, of t;tquot; variety, or an obeisance to taper sed t no divinity makes an appearance in Marvells poem, except for quot;ty Sunquot;. Per, to imagine o t;gloriesquot; of t greater ligist becoming a part, simply, of art.
Soo individual, too fierce a er to dissolve easily, urns formal and outrageous, exotic and demotic, exquisite and coarse, precious and raunc and socialist, purple and black. ranssexual coloratura of to t t of ories. Sometimes, at novel lengtinctive Carter voice, ters cadences interrupted by moonstone-and-rone mix of opulence and flim-flam, can be exing. In ories, s while shes ahead.
Carter arrived almost fully formed; ory, quot;A Very, Very Great Lady and ;, is already replete erian motifs. ure; but also of loinks -- falling rose-petals t sound like pigeons farts, and a fat are quot;great levellersquot;. , languorous, erotic, perverse; very like timate novel Nig the Circus.
Anotory, quot;A Victorian Fablequot;, announces ion to all traordinary text, by exs dead words:
In every snickert and ginnel, bone-grubbers,
rufflers, shivering-jemmies, anglers, clapperdogeons,
peterers, sneeze-lurkers and heir
morts, out of the picaroon, fox and flim and ogle.
Be advised, tories say: ter is no meat-and-potatoes , a Cat collection Fireworks.
Several of tories deal ry y and dark eroticism bruised and cers imagination. In quot;A Souvenir of Japanquot; s country before us. quot;tory of Momotaro, ;Mirrors make a room uncosy.quot; or presents o us as a sex object, complete ung lips. quot;I so I could cime and o get a; t least, beautiful; tors viely uncosy. quot;In tment store te Girls Only. t as gross as Glumdalclitc; In quot;Fles; te, erotic atmospicerature ed sexual perversities -- except ters constant self-a; I gone eigo find a climate eria in it to satisfy me?quot; or asks; as, in quot;terquot;, anotor admonis;Do not t realize ; and tory y t rescues -- brings to life -- ic piece of mood-music. Carters cold-er doucelligence often come to t runs too wild.)
In tories Carter enters, for t time, ter are lost in a sensual, malevolent forest, e, and eac good and evil, but incestuous sexuality. Incest -- a recurring Carter subject -- crops up again in quot;tioners Beautiful Daug;, a tale set in tessential Carter location -- one of tory quot;t;, quot;tsquot;. olves er-country villages and tamorphoses.
Carters otry is tist, trickster, teer. quot;t; takes o yet anotainous, Middle-European village ed like vampires (akes t) ised rites of immemorial beastliness in tsquot;. As in all Carters fairground stories, quot;tesque is t;. Lady Purple, trix marionette, is a moralists o a puppet because s;pulled only by trings of Lustquot;. Se of Pinoccamorp-;Masterquot;, one of t;unappeasable appetitesquot; to ial. In ion, t ladies in ional earth.
ters masterly married to ories needs. (For t of tic Carter, read ise C in spite of all t last novel, t of o endure.)
title story, or overture, begins as classic grand guignol: an innocent bride, a mucle stood upon a melting s room containing , murderous man: Carters first variation on ty and t. t t: instead of to save y agrees to go to t, o ers rescue.