Fleshy Bones: December 2008

Fleshy Bones Are:

Infamous Saints

Edgar Allan Poe, Born January 19, 1809 – Died October 7, 1849 was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.

Source: Wikipedia, Edgar Allan Poe

David Cronenberg, Born March 15, 1943, sci-fi and horror film director David Cronenberg has said that his films should be seen "from the point of view of the disease", and that, for example, he identifies with the characters in Shivers after they become infected with the anarchic parasites.

Disease and disaster, in Cronenberg's work, are less problems to be overcome than agents of personal transformation. Similarly, in Crash (1996), people who have been injured in car crashes attempt to view their ordeal as "a fertilizing rather than a destructive event". In 2006, Cronenberg would say that he was upset that Paul Haggis had chosen the same name for his Academy Award winning film Crash, feeling it was not only ethically wrong, but annoying as hell.

Cronenberg was quoted as saying, "Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."

Source: Wikipedia, David Cronenberg

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