{"id":4944,"date":"2013-01-02T10:04:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T17:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2013-01-02T11:04:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T18:04:36","slug":"sex-with-ghosts-vengeful-mummies-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4944","title":{"rendered":"Sex with Ghosts, Vengeful Mummies, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

At The Hairpin, <\/em>A Q&A with author, photographer, and ossuary expert Paul Koudounaris.<\/a><\/p>\n

Two quotes:<\/p>\n

Back in grad school I was known as the Fox Mulder<\/a> of the art history department. Everyone else was working on Rembrandt and I was looking at woodblock prints of witches. . . .<\/p>\n

If you consider Psycho,<\/em><\/a> the one thing that makes Norman Bates absolutely unfit to be a member of human society is that he has his mother mummified and dresses her in clothes. That what marked him as a lunatic. But back in 1700 in Sicily that would have marked him as the paradigm of a loving son. At that point death was not a boundary, it was just a transition and the dead still had a roll to play.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have my own ossuary on the mantel, but it is for birds and small mammals. It started with the discovery of a sharp-shinned hawk “in kit form” by the driveway when M. and I moved into this house.<\/p>\n

↬<\/a> The Daily Grail<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At The Hairpin, A Q&A with author, photographer, and ossuary expert Paul Koudounaris. Two quotes: Back in grad school I was known as the Fox Mulder of the art history department. Everyone else was working on Rembrandt and I was looking at woodblock prints of witches. . . . 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