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Date Posted: 11:54:07 01/05/06 Thu
Author: Sunshine
Subject: Re: Biting as metaphorical sex
In reply to: skeeve 's message, "Re: Biting as metaphorical sex" on 18:31:28 01/04/06 Wed

Not why that scene, why the long history.
Sorry, I misunderstood your question. I am not the best person to answer this question as there are people on this board who have a much, much better handle on literature than I but since I am in the middle of the thread, I will contribute my 2 cents worth. I see two types of monster stories: those whose only goal is to scare one and those with more ambition that which to use the monster as metaphor to examine human condition. Frankenstein, for example, was, I believe, a comment on the dehumanization of man due to the industrial revolution. I think vampire mythology is a comment on the dual nature of man – the coexisting good and evil that inhabits us all. We all have the capacity to be overwhelmed by our more primal desires which can wipe away the illusion of civilization. Since sex is one of the most primal of all desires it makes sense that there would be this connection. Also, the connection between sex and violence (or maybe more correctly aggression) is fore-grounded in the vampires behavior. As I said, I am not all that well qualified to ramble on about this subject (but lack of qualification hasn’t stopped me before) and I am sure someone else can do a much better analysis.

It's rather like porcupines having a long history as tomatos.
If tomatoes provided a useful metaphor for porcupine essence then perhaps porcupine literature would be full of tomato stories. As I said, I am not that well versed in human literature and am almost totally unfamiliar with porcupine literature (if an infinite number of porcupines with an infinite number of copies of Microsoft Word…)

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