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John the Baptist

posted 16 years ago by downtownblah
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Is Hilditch's flashback of going to the opera as a boy with his mother to watch the play a hint of incest between the two? Throwing up the liver in the stuffing may be of psychological significance as well.

This is one of the top hits when I went looking for information on the beheading of John the Baptist. This is the first I learned of the John the Baptist, bulimia and incest association:

http://www.geocities.com/psychohistory2001/johnthebaptist.html

[–] MrBook_ 15 years ago

I haven't seen it in a long time, but it always seemed like they were hinting at that very strongly, but in such an obtuse, sideways way that I was never sure that's even what we were supposed to think. That John the Baptist link is a good find, interesting stuff.

Edit: I haven't read the book, but according to another post on this board, the incest angle is made explicit in the book.

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