Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00347)

 WARNING! DO NOT READ IF SQUEAMISH
Setting the Scene.
What sort of a state was Anna Kingsford in before she entertained murderous
thoughts?

"I went in my sleep last night from one torture chamber to another in the
underground vaults of a vivisector's laboratory, and in all were men at
work lacerating, dissecting, and burning the living flesh of their victims.
But these were no longer mere horses or dogs or rabbits; for in each I saw
a human shape, the shape of a man, with limbs and lineaments resembling
those of their tormentors, hidden within the outward form. And so they
bound down a horse, and gathering round him, cut into him with knives, I
saw the human shape within him writhe and moan as if it were a babe in it's
mother's womb."
 Enough! It gets worse.

 From "Anna Kingsford" by her collaborator Edward Maitland in two Volumes
1896.
I wonder if you're still reading this ,
Bruce