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Jeanette Winterson | Paris Review | 23rd October 2023
Ghost stories may well have proliferated in the 19C because of the excess carbon monoxide from gas lamps โ low level poisoning can cause hallucinations and dread. In the 21C, our hauntings will be predicated on the intangible reality we already inhabit. โA ghost is the spirit of a dead person. An avatar is a digital twin of a living person. Neither is 'real'. A haunted metaverse. Why not?โ
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Charity Urbanski | Medievalists | 23rd October 2023
For most of history, a โ"monsterโ was not necessarily an imaginary creature like a vampire or a werewolf. Any deviation in appearance or behavior (via a birth defect or disability, say) was folded into the concept of monstrosity. By the 12C, a complex visual language had developed that conflated otherness with demons, and this was used to persecute those perceived to be outsiders
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