April 3, 2026 ‘Complex, dangerous, sexual beings’: The centuries-old origins of current fairy fiction ‘Complex, dangerous, sexual beings’ The centuries-old origins of current fairy fiction
goodshit These three stories — the story of Book of Genesis’s Lot and his wife, the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus, and the opera Frida inspired by Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo during the Day of the Dead — all revolve around one powerful idea: the dangerous desire to reunite with the dead or look backward instead of forward.
