Excerpt from student interview 2014
Student: "Why have you waited so long to start sharing your work?"
E.B.: "I had mountains of work in my head and in my journals. But I burned them all. I burned them in hopes of burning the memories, the pain, and the hurt I caused. What we often read as a romantic play of words is really romanticized fetishes."
Student: "What do you mean?"
E.B.: "Why do we love the gore of a person being hacked up by a chainsaw in a movie? The neck slit open? The brutal rape of a girl? People like to read for vicarious pleasure. This was something Freud hinted at I believe in his work. There is something primal and 'sick' in us that craves this kind of horror. We are parasites of suffering. Beyond writing look at the world. Do we not love the suffering of the 'others'?"
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Student: "Why have you waited so long to start sharing your work?"
E.B.: "I had mountains of work in my head and in my journals. But I burned them all. I burned them in hopes of burning the memories, the pain, and the hurt I caused. What we often read as a romantic play of words is really romanticized fetishes."
Student: "What do you mean?"
E.B.: "Why do we love the gore of a person being hacked up by a chainsaw in a movie? The neck slit open? The brutal rape of a girl? People like to read for vicarious pleasure. This was something Freud hinted at I believe in his work. There is something primal and 'sick' in us that craves this kind of horror. We are parasites of suffering. Beyond writing look at the world. Do we not love the suffering of the 'others'?"
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