‘The Elephant Man’ Lives Within Our Skin
David Lynch's The Elephant Man, now available from Criterion, is as much a life-affirming parable as it is an exercise in reorienting the boundaries of what we recognize as human--and inhuman.
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Smells and Bells, Halls and Hells: ‘The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London’
The mud, rain, smoke, fog, and excrement that abounded meant whatever one's rank, the weather and the smells took their toll on one's health, one's clothing, and one's nerves.
