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A review by hi_marcy
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
Make it Plato's allegory of the cave, but with opium, necrophilia, [not quite because this is Iranian, but reminiscent of] Kali Ma/a thousand names-like figure, and butchery and dismemberment as a metaphor for sex or maybe some wild hang-ups about it, anyway. Or, maybe, simply abjectness as wholeness