He tucked it under her feet, her elbows and shoulders, and went out into the den and opened the door of the wood stove. The outer layers were burnished to a luster over decades of sleeping flesh, the inner batting composed of older blankets still. He covered her in her old handed-down quilt. He gathered her up in his arms, light as a girl, and carried her inside to her room. Her chin sat on her chest, rising and falling with her breath.
In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped, silverplated, phallic, time thrusting itself gleaming through the worn and worthless husk of the microsecond previous, halting, beginning to show the slow and infinitesimal accreations of decay in the clocking away of life in a mechanism encoded at the moment of conception, withering, shunted aside by time's next orgasmic thrust, and all to the beating of som In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped, silverplated, phallic, time thrusting itself gleaming through the worn and worthless husk of the microsecond previous, halting, beginning to show the slow and infinitesimal accreations of decay in the clocking away of life in a mechanism encoded at the moment of conception, withering, shunted aside by time's next orgasmic thrust, and all to the beating of some galactic heart, to voices, a madman's mutterings from a snare in the web of the world.more Tennessee Williams described Southern Gothic as a style that captured "an intuition, of an underlying dreadfulness in modern experience." One of the most notable features of the genre is "the grotesque." Southern Gothic authors commonly use deeply flawed, grotesque characters for greater narrative range and more opportunities to highlight unpleasant aspects of Southern culture without being too literal or appearing to be overly moralistic. It is unlike its parent genre in that it uses these tools not solely for the sake of suspense, but also to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South. Southern Gothic is like its parent genre in that it relies on supernatural, ironic, or unusual events to guide the plot.
One of the most notable features of the genre is "the grotesque." Southern Gothic authors commonly use deeply flawed, grotesque characters for greater narrative range and more opportunities to highlight unpleasan Southern Gothic is a subgenre of the gothic novel, unique to American literature.
Southern Gothic is a subgenre of the gothic novel, unique to American literature.