"A dead female body is a timeless fetish and becomes more attractive and sensational when the corpse is of a mad woman."
---Injela Zaini, writing about Ophelia (x)
"Now, never losing sight of the object—supremeness or perfection at all points, I asked myself—'Of all melancholy topics what, according to the universal understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy?' Death, was the obvious reply. 'And when,' I said, 'is this most melancholy of topics most poetical?' [...T]he answer here also is obvious—'When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.'"
---Edgar Allan Poe, with or without irony (x)
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