on an up note.
"i like smut" -- casey
That Madame Psychosis had confessed to Molly Notkin that the widow struck her as very possibly Death incarnate -- her constant smile the rictal smile of some kind of thanatoptic figure -- and that it had struck Madame Psychosis as bizzare that it was she, Madame Psychosis, whom the Auteur kept casting as variouse feminine instantiations of Death when he had the real thing right under his nose, and eminently photogenic to boot, the widow-to-be, apparently a real restaurant-silencer-type beauty even in her late forties.