“Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of self-deceit, Mother perceives in herself untold abysses of cruelty as subtle as it is refined.”
Angela Carter
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
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