THE STAIN 

“a kind of stain
which invades
diegetic reality”
—Slavoj Zizek
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Karswell tries to—
explain to his mother
he can’t stop now

He can’t give back—
life to dead Harrington
the doubting professor

Anymore than he—
can save Dana Andrews
from himself
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Both men caught—
up in the clutches of
the occult universe

Ditzy Athena Seyler—
all in a dither like
Marion Lorne

Karswell like Bruno—
spoiled psychopathic
killers for a son