thinking about the pain threshold portrait which depicts a human with multiple stakes driven through their body, seemingly to see how much they can take, and harry trying to reach dora by hurting himself as it would be hurting her. then ignus nilsen putting thousands of people to the stake after mazov shot himself, yes to not get shot in his own right, but also as revenge against the treacherous world, the use of “excess” and “obscene” to describe his rampage…..












