I had one of those delightful moments yesterday wherein I discovered an idea that my brain had already put in place. Do you ever get those? It feels like there's some other part of me that's someplace just ahead, laying down track to connect my thoughts together in such a perfect line, it's hard to believe that I hadn't consciously laid it out that way to begin with. Of course David can steal people's souls with his photographs (though not really; it's more that he can take their feelings out of them, and he's very careful only to take bad things out of people who need them taken). Of course the demon that lives inside Mary keeps him from taking photographs of her; that's the only way their marriage ever worked in the first place. Of course that all ties in with the theme of self-acceptance, and how so often, emotional intimacy means letting someone else see all the gross, weird things inside ourselves, all the neuroses and baggage and, yes, the demons and wolves.
Well done, brain, well done indeed!
Another point of some amusement is how many people that I know in real life are finding their way into the story. Hello, David. Hi,
a)sex
b)in a threesome
c)that involves both a man and a woman. (Pretty sure Real Life David is straight.)
Yyyyyyyeah, that's probably a standard hazard when you're friends with a writer.
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