I am for my own teeth. I am for my own stomach. I alone eat myself to the dark.
We see many of these characters are being devoured by something. Aunt Fedelia is being devoured by her anger. Elohim is being devoured by his hate. Grand by his secret and Stella by her fear. Autopsy, too, is being devoured by his faith. From early on, we see fangs. Men who claim to eat only vegetables, but hide dark secrets where blood is masked as barbecue sauce. Cannibalism is defined as the eating of the flesh of one’s own species. And sometimes it is defined when we eat of ourselves. The female characters in the novel fare better at escaping this fate. Aunt Fedelia finds her true path. Stella realizes fear is no way to live. And Dresden learns to dance and love herself. In the female characters, we can see how once severed from those things that threaten to devour us, we can be free. The male characters are not so fortunate.
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