The company of wolves Flashcards
invisible
pentacle
she is a closed system;
she does not know how to shiver
the girl burst
out laughing; she knew she was nobody’s meat
the flames danced
like dead souls
tender
wolf
she will put the lice
into her mouth
links to other stories
BC: girl is weaker, virginal
TB: becomes a beast, liberated by freedom from humanity
EK: ‘tender butcher’: two extremes to one character
synopsis
wolves terrorise a village, kill girls grandmother, when he tries to get her she laughs in his face and loses her virginity to him, he could be a symbol of liberation (kills repressed people: domesticated/religious)
swollen with
the fall
carnivore
incarnate
between the
paws of the tender wolf
luminous,
terrible sequins
no wolf lay in front
of the hunter but the bloody trunk of a man
howl has,
for all it’s fearful resonance, some inherent sadness
she wept and
her second husband beat her (after her ex, a wolf, attacks her children)
