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The Unacceptable Beauty of Erzsébet Báthory with Alex Kaschuta

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Are We Doing a Good Job at Engaging With a Person Like This?

I don't think our culture is doing a very good job at engaging with a figure like this. And we seem to have to try to domesticate her, or to make her kind of take awayt te agency that she clearly had in order to explain away her crimes. So i think there's a greater honesty in thes more, um, these earlier sort of avangard attempts to engage with her as a figure. M, you know, a, the passage i read before says: There is nothing that can be a no compassion, no sympathy or admiration may be felt for her,. only a certain astonishment at the enormity of the horror. In which everything reflects unacceptable beauty

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