{"title":"Challenging Situation No. 3: The Rolling Skull","authors":"David Citino","doi":"10.1353/RCR.2011.0030","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Having fashioned what you could not accept of your self and your parents into a figure your own size, you call it “enemy” and in a great struggle during which you prove to the world and to your lover your purity of heart, your courage and strength you behead this new man but the head becomes a grinning skull rolling after you in the dust, follows you into your tent when you try to rest or to lie near your lover, grows wings, a great tail and slithers or flies after you through mud, water and sky, laughing at you as if","PeriodicalId":158814,"journal":{"name":"Red Cedar Review","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Red Cedar Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/RCR.2011.0030","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Having fashioned what you could not accept of your self and your parents into a figure your own size, you call it “enemy” and in a great struggle during which you prove to the world and to your lover your purity of heart, your courage and strength you behead this new man but the head becomes a grinning skull rolling after you in the dust, follows you into your tent when you try to rest or to lie near your lover, grows wings, a great tail and slithers or flies after you through mud, water and sky, laughing at you as if