Michel Houellebecq and Materialist Horror with Louis Betty
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The Worm's Front and Centre, but Its So Continuously Hides It
There's a lot in here which is a reminder of your own reality. The characters are drawn out into alcohol or sex or smoking, and then they're shot back into the realization of the superficiality of that. And if you're drinking that much, you're going to get delirium tremen. Ah, but it's not described in medical terms, more like in spiritual terms. Like he has the sense of, like a presence in the room, something touching him. So there's this language of possession. It even takes on a kind of supernatural aspect. That lis thing.
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