But such fairly simple items were eventually followed, and ultimately replaced, by more articulated objects and constructions. And there was also a humble piece of cement, a fragment broken away from any street or sidewalk, that left a most intractable stain, greasy and green, on whatever surface it was placed. Less scrutable were such things as hardened globs of lava into whose rough, igneous forms were sent a pair of rheumy eyes that perpetually shifted their gaze from side to side like a relentless pendulum. Numerous natural objects, mostly bulbous gourds, were designed to produce a long, deafening scream whenever they were picked up or otherwise disturbed in their vegetable stillness.
There was a fake disembodied hand on which fingernails would grow several inches overnight and insistently grew back should one attempt to clip them. Along the same lines was a series of lifelike replicas of internal organs and physiological structures, many of them evidencing an advanced stages of disease and all of them displeasingly warm and soft to the touch. These included tiny, delicate cameos that were heavier than their size would suggest, far heavier, and lockets whose shiny outer surface flipped open to reveal a black reverberant abyss inside, a deep blackness roaring with echoes. Among the objects and constructions now manufactured were several of an almost innocent nature.
“So it was that the Red Tower put into production its new, more terrible and perplexing, line of unique novelty items. Amy Tan Born place: in Oakland, California, The United States See more on GoodReads Popular quotes
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