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The Madame Psychosis show (x)

quote

It is heavily digital, but with something of a choral bouquet. But unhuman. Mario thinks of the word haunting, like in ‘a haunting echo of thus-and-such.’

Context

Mario groping for the word for her cued background music and landing, of all available words, on haunting — in the domesticated idiom-sense he can handle. The raw then quietly turns the idiom literal: her cued musics stir very early memories of Mario's father, the very tall man who carried the boys to bed and who will return as an actual wraith.

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