Maybe you're happy, but I hope you're sad

[sovay]

I understand the entire point of this profile of 1980's Bennington is the writers who came out of it and that she herself went to the Catholic University of America, but by the end it really sounds like a Liz Hand novel.

After establishing that Norman Lindsay's Man and leopard-woman in a room (1900s–10s) which I first saw elsenet without sourcing was not the product of extractive AI, I particularly admire the naturally occurring gloves on the leopard-woman and I expect the next drawing in the sequence to have shown his dressing gown in shreds and no leopard-woman to be seen.

I am not any more pleased with this month after hearing that Joan Plowright just died.

Comments

[alexxkay]

Hrm. I wonder if there's any connection between that piece and Caress of the Sphinx, from a decade or so earlier?

[I know that painting because it features prominently in Greg Egan's short story "The Caress".]

[sovay]

Hrm. I wonder if there's any connection between that piece and Caress of the Sphinx, from a decade or so earlier?

It definitely feels like a modern variation on the Decadent/Symbolist Sphinx, although I don't know if a variation on Khnopff or Moreau specifically. I was expecting to discover it had been commissioned as a magazine illustration for a weird tale and apparently it was just drawn on the artist's own time. [edit] It wouldn't quite suit a reprint of Esthner M. Friesner's "Simpson's Lesser Sphynx" (1984), but I would be tempted.